wailing
Mournful loud crying
Wailing is prolonged, loud crying or lamentation—the kind of grieving sound that fills a room or carries across distance.
The wailing of mourners, the wailing of sirens, the wailing of a neglected infant.
As an adjective, it describes sounds with that quality: a wailing guitar solo, the wailing wind.
Mournful commemorative music
- elegyPoem lamenting the departed
- threnodyMemorial song of grief
- requiemMass for the deceased
- keeningVocal mourning for dead
funeral · eulogy · wake · shiva · memorial · bereavement · condolence · obituary
dirge
Mournful commemorative music
keening · funeral · eulogy · wake · shiva · memorial · bereavement · condolence · obituary · interment
sorrow
Deep emotional distress
torment · anguish · misery · suffering · grief · distress · desolation · heartbreak · woe · melancholy
ambulance
Emergency medical transport
- policeCivil law enforcement
- firefighterEmergency blaze responder
- emergencySerious sudden danger
alarm · warning · alert · signal · horn · loud · blaring · piercing · shrill · approaching
- cryingcry, crying, tears, sob, sobbing
- melodramatichistrionic, theatrical, overwrought, exaggerated, dramatic
- theatricstheatrics, dramatics, melodrama, histrionics, theatricality
- vocalizationsspeak, speaking, talking, whisper, shout
- letting outrenting, subletting, leasing, emitting, screaming
- loud noisesnoise, bang, crash, roar, boom
- weeping and wailing
- Wailing WallSacred Temple remnant