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crying

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of crying

needing immediate attention

a crying need for more activities for young people in this town

Synonyms of crying

acute, burning, clamant, compelling, critical, dire, emergent, exigent, imperative, imperious, importunate, instant, necessitous, pressing, urgent

Words Related to crying

demanding, extreme, immediate, insistent, intense, overriding

crucial, desperate, grave, life-and-death (also life-or-death), serious, severe, vital

dangerous, explosive, hazardous, perilous, precarious, unstable

Near Antonyms of crying

incidental, low-pressure, minor, negligible, trivial, unimportant

nonthreatening, safe, stable

Antonyms of crying

noncritical, nonurgent

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