weeping
Crying with grief
Weeping is crying, especially prolonged or intense crying: She found him weeping in the garden.
The word carries more gravity than crying—you weep at funerals, over losses, in grief.
Things that drip or ooze may weep: The wound was weeping.
A weeping willow or weeping cherry has branches that hang downward, as if in sorrow.
Convulsive weeping
- tearsViolent pulls apart
- wailProlonged mournful cry
- whimperQuiet, plaintive cry
- snivelWeep while complaining
bawl · blubber · sniffle · moan · howl · lamentation · keening · mewl
Service honoring the dead
- wakePath left in water
- shivaJewish week of mourning
- vigilPurposeful nighttime wakefulness
- dirgeMournful commemorative music
elegy · requiem · eulogy · keening · ululation · threnody · lamentation · memorial
State following loss
- lossBeing without something
- heartacheDeep emotional distress
- anguishIntense mental suffering
- sorrowDeep emotional distress
mourning · despair · heartbreak · woe · misery · desolation · inconsolable · bereft
sob
Convulsive weeping
snivel · bawl · blubber · sniffle · moan · howl · lamentation · keening · mewl · teardrop
funeral
Service honoring the dead
dirge · elegy · requiem · eulogy · keening · ululation · threnody · lamentation · memorial · burial
bereavement
State following loss
sorrow · mourning · despair · heartbreak · woe · misery · desolation · inconsolable · bereft · grieving
willow
Narrow-leaved waterside tree
cascading · ornamental · riverside · foliage · canopy · graceful · arching · trailing · shade · garden
- cryingcry, crying, tears, sob, sobbing
- lamentslamentation, wailing, keen, keening, lament
- moisturemoisture, humidity, dampness, wetness, wet
- mourningfuneral, burial, grief, bereavement, wake
- sufferingagony, anguish, misery, pain, torment
- theatricstheatrics, dramatics, melodrama, histrionics, theatricality
- weeping willowTree with pendulous branches
- weeping and wailing
- weeping cherryOrnamental tree, pendulous limbs
- weeping womanFemale figure in tears
- weeping statueSculpture seeming to cry
- weeping treeTree with drooping branches