Cry

Verb

 * 1)  To shed tears; to weep.
 * 2)  To shout, scream, yell.

Noun

 * 1) A shedding of tears.
 * 2) A shout or scream.
 * 3) Words shouted or screamed.
 * 4)  A group of hounds.

Adjectives for Cry
raucous; feeble; painful; melancholy; guttural; heartsick; cornered; shrill; sharp; solitary; importunate; hoarse; choking; satirical; earnest; furious; thrilling; unanimous; pathetic; protesting; strident; peevish; battle; human; broken; triumphant; warning; petulant; wailing; plaintive; bootless; simultaneous; responsive; similar; distinct; suppressed; avenging;  defiant; boastful; inspiring; drunken; pitiful; long-drawn; careless; passionate; supreme; piercing; unending; desolate; discordant; vociferous; prayerful; exultant; half-suppressed; half-demoniac; funeral; answering;  terrified;  inharmonious; impious; aspiring; yapping; plausible; premature; inevitable; harsh; ugly; shivering; stifled; strangled; joyous; wild; unearthly; despairing; clamorous; sharp; hissing; death-dealing; maniacal; piteous; amazed; comfortable; weird; impassioned; startling rallying; unceasing; solitary; untenable delirious; admiring; wrathful; everlasting universal; prevailing; farthest-sounding shuddering; inarticulate; gurgling; long half-hysterical; dirgelike; loud; incoherent perpetual; distressing; wrenching; sobbing agonizing; brief; happy; smothered; full-mouthed; drawling; peculiar; fearful; fierce; ribald; far-resounding; odious; ineffable; continuous; mocking; supplicating; terrible; patriotic; noisy; dismal; expostulating; welcoming; ghastly; mutual; exulting; jubilant; ecstatic; joyful; delighted gladdening; naive;  inspiriting; wistful stimulating; high; soft-noted; insistent clarion; squeaky; rasping; clangorous heart-chilling; babyish; heartbroken; dismayed; solemn; whimpering; breathless; stricken;  important; frenzied;  frantic; gulping; muffled; wanton; insulting; contemptuous; groaning; derisive; murder; fiendish; horror-stricken; anguished; spiteful; barbaric; sighing; yearning; low; ap pealing; hysterical; entreating; ominous involuntary; frightened; haunting; elfin sporting; familiar; asinine; wheezy; word¬less;  destructive;  fluttering; incessant; scattered; hurtling; penetrating; vibrating; soul-shaking; dolorous; mournful; provocative; revolutionary; multitudinous (plural).

Verbs for Cry
echo—; flee at—; force out—; give ear to—; hearken to—; heed—; let slip—; mock—; raise up—; repeat—; roar—; take up—; utter—; voice—; wring—from; —arouses; —awakens; —bursts forth; —disturbs; — fills; —jars; —resounds; —reverberates; —rises; —scares; —shatters; —wanes.

Adverbs for Cry
discordantly; querulously; reproachfully; jealously; hoarsely; earnestly; heartbrokenly; dishearteningly; flippantly; vehemently; enthusiastically; persistently; piteously; sternly; passionately; jovially; tempestuously; haughtily; indignantly; incoherently; irritably; energetically; contemptuously; exultantly; reprovingly; ringingly; gaily; disconsolately; unrestrainedly; tauntingly; feverishly; peremptorily; tantalizingly; falteringly; mirthfully; spontaneously; sympathetically; stormily; unanimously; petulantly; wailingly; drunkenly; passionately; piercingly; agonizingly; vociferously; jubilantly; ecstatically; inspiritingly; solemnly; spitefully; hysterically; involuntarily; ominously; wordlessly; incessantly; dolorously; yearningly; bitterly; inwardly.

Thesaurus
plea, plug, prayer, press notice, press-agent, proclaim, promulgate, public eye, public knowledge, public relations, public report, publicity, publicity story, publicness, puff, pule, pushover, rage, rah, rallying cry, reclame, rend the air, report, roar, rogation, roorback, rumble, rumor, screak, scream, screech, scuttlebutt, shed tears, shibboleth, shout, shout hosanna, shriek, sigh, slogan, sniff, snivel, sniveling, sob, sobbing, song, sorrow, split the throat, spotlight, squall, squawk, squeak, squeal, strain the voice, stridulation, suit, supplication, talk, tear, tear bottle, teardrop, tearful eyes, tearfulness, tears, thunder, thunder forth, tirade, ton, town talk, trend, troat, trumpet, trumpet forth, ululate, ululation, unconfirmed report, vociferate, vogue, vogue word, wail, wail of woe, war cry, weep, weepiness, weeping, whicker, whimper, whimpering, whine, whinny, whisper, whoop, woodnote, write-up, yammer, yap, yawl, yawp, yell, yelp, yip, yippee, yowl, PR, adjuration, advertise, alleluia, animal noise, appeal, applaud, applause, ballyhoo, bark, barking, battle cry, bawl, bawling, bay, bell, bellow, bemoan, beseechment, bewail, bid, birdcall, blare, blare forth, blat, blate, blaze, blaze abroad, blazon, blazon about, bleat, blubber, blubbering, blurb, boohoo, bray, break down, bright light, bruit, build up, burst into tears, buzz, byword, call, canard, catch phrase, catchword, caterwaul, caw, celebrate, celebrity, cheer, choke up, chorus of cheers, clamor, clang, cliche, common knowledge, common talk, craze, cry aloud, cry for joy, cry out, crying, currency, daylight, declaim, dissolve in tears, dolorous tirade, drop a tear, eclat, entreaty, exposure, fad word, fame, famousness, fit of crying, flood of tears, flying rumor, furore, give a cheer, give tongue, give voice, glare, good cry, gossip, grapevine, greet, groan, grunt, hail, hallelujah, halloo, hearsay, herald, herald abroad, holler, hollo, hoopla, hooray, hoot, hosanna, howl, howling, hue and cry, hurrah, hurray, huzzah, idea afloat, imploration, imploring, imprecation, invocation, invocatory plea, jeremiad, keen, lachryma, lachrymosity, lacrimatory, lament, latrine rumor, limelight, low, make an outcry, mating call, maximum dissemination, melting mood, meow, mew, mewl, miaow, moan, mode, moo, motto, mourn, murmur, mutter, neigh, news stirring, nicker, note, notoriety, obsecration, obtestation, on-dit, outcry, overflowing eyes, paean, pet expression, pipe, plaint, planctus,

Etymology
From crien:, from  crier:, from  cridare:, of  origin, from  *undefined:,  𐌺𐍂𐌴𐌹𐍄𐌴𐌽:, both from, from. Cognate with criten: ( krijten: "to cry"),  kriten:,  krizen:. Compare also to cridar:,  gridare:,  cridar: ( gritar:). Cognate with grith:,  gryd:.

Alternate etymology connects the word to  queri: through the form quiritare:, though the phonetic and semantic developments are difficult to explain (cridare meant "shout, yell, proclaim", not "complain, lament, wail"). Compare also Sanskrit cvas "to pant", "hiss", "sigh"; English quarrel a brawl, querulous.

crien: displaced native Middle English galen "to cry out" (from Old English galan), Middle English greden "to cry out" (from Old English grædan:), Middle English yermen "to bellow, mourn, lament" (from Old English ġierman), Middle English hooen, hoen "to cry out" (from Old Norse hōa), Middle English remen "to cry, shout" (from Old English hrīeman, compare Old English hrēam "noise, outcry, lamentation, alarm"), Middle English greten, graten "to weep, cry, lament" (from Old English grætan: and Old Norse grāta). More at greet, regret.

Synonyms
weep

Antonyms
laugh

Derived terms
battle cry; warcry; crybaby; cry like a baby; cry one's eyes out; cry off; cry out; cry someone a river; cry the blues; cry wolf; don't cry over spilt milk

Verb

 * Afrikaans:
 * Aleut: qida
 * Amharic: ለቅሶ (cry)፥ ማልቀስ (to cry)፥ አለቀሰ (he cried)፥ አለቀሰች (she cried)
 * Arabic: بكى, يبكي (present tense)
 * Armenian: լալ, լաց լինել
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: plorar
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 哭
 * Min Nan:
 * Coptic:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, (archaic),  (archaic),
 * Egyptian: (to produce tears)
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: nutma, nuuksuma
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * Galician: chorar
 * German:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: रोना
 * Hungarian:, , könnyezik
 * Ido: plorar
 * Inuktitut: ᕿᐊ (qia)
 * Irish: ,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 울다
 * Kurdish:
 * Latgalian:
 * Latin: ,
 * Latin: ,


 * Latvian: raudāt
 * Lithuanian: verkti, raudoti
 * Luxembourgish: kräischen
 * Malayalam: കരയുക (karayuka)
 * Old French:
 * Old Provençal:
 * Persian:, گریه کردن
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scots: greet
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: плакати
 * Roman: plakati
 * Sicilian: cianciri
 * Slovak: plakať
 * Slovene:
 * Sotho: lla
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: gråta
 * Thai: (róng-hâi),  (râm-hâi)
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: aglamak
 * Urdu: رونا
 * Vietnamese: khóc
 * West Frisian: treure
 * !Xóõ: kxʻāa
 * Yup'ik: qire


 * Afrikaans: skreeu
 * Arabic: صاح, يصيح (present tense)
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: рева, крещя
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 喊
 * Danish: råbe, skrige
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Estonian: karjuma, hüüdma
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:, , kiáltozik, , vonít (dog), rikolt, rikácsol (bird)
 * Ido: kriar
 * Japanese: 叫ぶ
 * Korean: 소리치다, 외치다


 * Kurdish:
 * Latvian: kliegt, saukt
 * Lithuanian: šaukti, rėkti
 * Luxembourgish: jäizen
 * Old French:
 * Persian: هوار کشیدن, فریاد زدن
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Slovak: kričať, volať
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: skrika, skälla
 * West Frisian: skrieme


 * Bulgarian: викам, крещя
 * Chinese:
 * Danish: udbryde, bekendtgøre
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Estonian: karjuma, hüüdma
 * Finnish:, ,
 * German:


 * Ido: kriar
 * Korean: 소리치다 (sorichida), 외치다 (oechida)
 * Luxembourgish: jäizen
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ropa, skrika
 * West Frisian: roppe

Noun

 * Bulgarian:
 * Cebuano: hilak
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: (kū)
 * Danish: ,
 * Estonian: nutt
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: pleur
 * Hebrew: בכי (bekhi)
 * Hungarian:
 * Ilocano: agsangit
 * Irish:
 * Korean: 울음 (ureum)
 * Kurdish:
 * Latvian: raudas, raudāšana


 * Lithuanian: verksmas, verkimas, rauda
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: plânset
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: плач
 * Roman: plač
 * Sicilian: cianciuta
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: gråt
 * Telugu: ఏడుపు (édupu), శోకం (sokam)


 * Armenian: ճիչ,
 * Bulgarian: крясък, рев
 * Cebuano: singgit, siyagit
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: (jiàohǎn)
 * Danish: råb, skrig
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: karje, karjatus, kiljatus, kilje
 * Finnish: karjahdus, karjaisu, kiljahdus, kiljaisu, parkaisu, rääkäisy
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Italian:
 * Korean: 외침 (oechim)
 * Kurdish:


 * Latvian: kliedziens, sauciens
 * Lithuanian: riksmas, šūksmas
 * Luxembourgish: Kreesch
 * Old Irish:
 * Old Provençal:
 * Polish: okrzyk, krzyk
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: ţipăt
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Slovene:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: skri, skrik
 * Telugu: కేక (kéka), అరుపు (arupu)


 * Bulgarian: вик
 * Danish: udbrud, udråb
 * Estonian: hüüe, hüüatus
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Korean: 외침 (oechim)
 * Kurdish: ,


 * Polish: krzyk (2) okrzyk
 * Romanian: strigăt, urlet, ţipăt
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Slovene:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: rop

Anagrams

 * Cyr.

Etymology
cri:

Noun

 * 1) ; shout

Descendants

 * French:

Verb

 * 1) to call, to give a name to
 * 2) * A body whit studies the history is cried a historian an aw.