Synonyms of wailing

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adjective

as in weeping

expressing or suggesting mourning

a wailing quality in her voice that makes her a natural for country music

Synonyms & Similar Words

• weeping
• mournful
• funeral
• heartbroken
• grieving
• bitter
• anguished
• aching
• crying
• plaintive
• melancholy
• sad
• agonized
• sorrowful
• tearful
• sorry
• lamentable
• doleful
• unhappy
• dolorous
• lugubrious
• regretful
• woeful
• plangent
• depressed
• bewailing
• somber
• rueful
• funereal
• bemoaning
• deploring
• dark
• morbid
• keening
• bleak
• dolesome
• moaning
• groaning
• howling
• inconsolable
• pathetic
• disconsolate
• bleeding
• elegiac
• darkening
• miserable
• dejected
• despondent
• downcast
• moody
• heartsick
• woebegone
• forlorn
• desolate
• dispirited
• crestfallen
• suffering
• bawling
• gloomy
• careworn
• black
• elegiacal
• gray
• grey
• glum
• brokenhearted
• dirgelike
• piteous
• yammering
• sombre
• sullen
• heartsore
• morose
• downhearted
• low
• wretched
• cheerless
• pessimistic
• dismal
• joyless
• low-spirited
• saturnine
• comfortless
• dreary
• triste

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• happy
• triumphant
• joyful
• laughing
• smiling
• delighted
• cheerful
• rejoicing
• bright
• cheery
• exulting
• joyous
• cheering
• merry
• glorying
• blissful
• buoyant
• jolly
• blithe
• encouraging
• mirthful
• optimistic
• hopeful
• lighthearted
• ecstatic
• rapturous
• giddy
• euphoric
• rhapsodic
• blithesome
• jocund
• heady
• rhapsodical
• elated
• exhilarated

wailing

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verb

present participle of wail

1

as in screaming

to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely

the state's residents are always wailing about their high taxes

Synonyms & Similar Words

• screaming
• complaining
• whining
• moaning
• muttering
• whimpering
• growling
• squealing
• crying
• grumbling
• squawking
• caterwauling
• hollering
• murmuring
• kicking
• keening
• worrying
• yammering
• bitching
• whingeing
• yowling
• yawping
• bleating
• kvetching
• bellyaching
• whinging
• grizzling
• grousing
• griping
• grouching
• nagging
• inveighing
• grumping
• carping
• repining
• beefing
• kicking up a fuss
• croaking
• sobbing
• protesting
• fussing
• crabbing
• maundering
• kicking up a stink
• yauping
• quarrelling (with)
• blubbering
• cavilling
• quarreling (with)
• quibbling
• objecting (to)
• lamenting
• bewailing
• stewing
• caviling
• fretting
• bemoaning
• deploring

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• rejoicing
• delighting
• enduring
• taking
• accepting
• crowing
• bearing
• tolerating
• cheering
• applauding
• commending
• countenancing

2

as in howling

to make a long loud mournful sound

the women stood beside the coffins, wailing for their fallen sons and daughters

Synonyms & Similar Words

• howling
• screaming
• shrieking
• yelling
• ululating
• keening
• yowling
• screeching
• baying
• squealing
• yelping
• squalling
• caterwauling
• shrilling
• bawling
• yawping
• yauping

3

as in moaning

to utter a moan

the patient lay in her bed, occasionally softly wailing in pain

Synonyms & Similar Words

• moaning
• groaning
• sobbing
• crying
• weeping
• whimpering
• whining
• shrieking
• blubbering
• sniffing
• sniveling
• bewailing
• howling
• snivelling
• grieving
• keening
• lamenting
• yelping
• mourning
• squalling
• sorrowing
• bemoaning
• bawling
• deploring
• bleeding
• hurting
• suffering
• yammering
• yowling
• ruing
• agonizing
• anguishing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• laughing
• giggling
• chuckling
• cackling
• snickering
• twittering
• chortling
• cracking up
• guffawing
• tittering