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View synonyms for weeping

weeping

[ wee-ping ]

adjective

  1. expressing grief, sorrow, or any overwhelming emotion by shedding tears:

    weeping multitudes.

  2. tearful; weepy:

    a weeping fit.

  3. tending or liable to cry; given to crying.
  4. dripping or oozing liquid.
  5. (of trees, shrubs, etc.) having slender, drooping branches.


weeping

/ ˈwiːpɪŋ /

adjective

  1. (of plants) having slender hanging branches


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Derived Forms

  • ˈweepingly, adverb

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Other Words From

  • weeping·ly adverb
  • un·weeping adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of weeping1

First recorded before 900; Middle English; Old English wepende. See weep 1, -ing 2

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Example Sentences

There is weeping and gnashing of teeth in Blue State America today.

Distraught, confused and ashamed, both men broke down in the courtroom, weeping like children and begging for forgiveness.

“I think I am a big part of the reason he is gay,” she says, weeping.

When our writer Andrew Romano removed the bag, it was revealed that LaBeouf was quietly weeping.

This weekend, thousands of people will stand in line to pay $13 for the privilege of grieving to the point of weeping.

Bride and bridegroom, accompanied by the weeping crowd, proceeded to the castle gate.

Looking through this hole, the king perceived an old man weeping, a man in mourning garb singing, and a nun or widow dancing.

"She is right—quite right," said the old man, too angry to be touched by the grief of the weeping women.

Questions in frightened voices filled the air against this background of suppressed weeping.

When but twelve years of age, her father found her, one day, weeping that she was not born a Roman maiden.

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