Thesaurus:weep

Thesaurus

weep

English

Verb

Sense: to cry; to shed tears

Synonyms

• beweep
• burst into tears
• cry
• cry one's eyes out
• greet (dialectal)
• shed a tear
• shed tears
• squirt some
• wail
• weep

Antonyms

• laugh    [⇒ thesaurus]

Hyponyms

• bawl
• blubber
• cry someone a river (idiomatic)
• sob
• wail
• whimper

Hypernyms

• be sad    [⇒ thesaurus]

Various

• blubber
• crybaby

See also

• Thesaurus:complain

Further reading

• “839. lamentation” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “weep” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.