Open English Wordnet
Nouns
(n)crying, weeping, tearsthe process of shedding tears (usually accompanied by sobs or other inarticulate sounds)“I hate to hear the crying of a child”,
“she was in tears” Adjectives
(s)clamant, crying, exigent, insistent, instantdemanding attention“clamant needs”,
“a crying need”,
“regarded literary questions as exigent and momentous” (H.L.Mencken),
“insistent hunger”,
“an instant need” (s)crying, egregious, flagrant, glaring, gross, rankconspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible“a crying shame”,
“an egregious lie”,
“flagrant violation of human rights”,
“a glaring error”,
“gross ineptitude”,
“gross injustice”,
“rank treachery”