Definition: loud cries made while weeping
Similar words: tears, weeping, crying
Definition: the process of shedding tears (usually accompanied by sobs or other inarticulate sounds)
Usage: I hate to hear the crying of a child; she was in tears
Synonyms: lamenting, wailful, wailing
Definition: vocally expressing grief or sorrow or resembling such expression
Usage: lamenting sinners; wailing mourners; the wailing wind; wailful bagpipes; tangle her desires with wailful sonnets- Shakespeare
Similar words: sorrowful
Definition: experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss
Usage: sorrowful widows; a sorrowful tale of death and despair; sorrowful news; even in laughter the heart is sorrowful- Proverbs 14:13