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crying, weeping, tears

n. the process of shedding tears (usually accompanied by sobs or other inarticulate sounds); "I hate to hear the crying of a child"; "she was in tears"

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dolorous, dolourous, lachrymose, tearful, weeping

adj. showing sorrow

cernuous, drooping, nodding, pendulous, weeping

adj. having branches or flower heads that bend downward; "nodding daffodils"; "the pendulous branches of a weeping willow"; "lilacs with drooping panicles of fragrant flowers"

severe

adj. very bad in degree or extent; "a severe worldwide depression"; "the house suffered severe damage"

agonizing, agonising, excruciating, harrowing, torturing, torturous, torturesome

adj. extremely painful

contrite, remorseful, rueful, ruthful

adj. feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses

weepy

adj. liable to weep easily

bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin, mawkish, kitschy, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, soppy, soupy, slushy

adj. effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressions of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry"

teary, teary-eyed, watery-eyed

adj. with eyes full of tears

suffering

adj. troubled by pain or loss; "suffering refugees"

bereaved, bereft, grief-stricken, grieving, mourning(a), sorrowing(a)

adj. sorrowful through loss or deprivation; "bereft of hope"

bitter

adj. proceeding from or exhibiting great hostility or animosity; "a bitter struggle"; "bitter enemies"

brokenhearted, heartbroken, heartsick

adj. full of sorrow

unhappy, saddening, doleful

adj. causing or suggestive of sorrow or gloom; "a gloomy outlook"; "gloomy news"

elegiac

adj. expressing sorrow often for something past; "an elegiac lament for youthful ideals"

grievous, heartbreaking, heartrending

adj. causing or marked by grief or anguish; "a grievous loss"; "a grievous cry"; "her sigh was heartbreaking"; "the heartrending words of Rabin's granddaughter"

lamentable

adj. bad; unfortunate; "my finances were in a deplorable state"; "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape"; "a sorry state of affairs"

lugubrious

adj. excessively mournful

mournful, plaintive

adj. expressing sorrow

woebegone, woeful

adj. affected by or full of grief or woe; "his sorrow...made him look...haggard and...woebegone"- George du Maurier

sad

adj. of things that make you feel sad; "sad news"; "she doesn't like sad movies"; "it was a very sad story"; "When I am dead, my dearest, / Sing no sad songs for me"- Christina Rossetti

accumbent, decumbent, recumbent

adj. lying down; in a position of comfort or rest

bended, bent

adj. used of the back and knees; stooped; "on bended knee"; "with bent (or bended) back"

couchant(ip)

adj. lying on the stomach with head raised with legs pointed forward

huddled, crouched, crouching, hunkered, hunkered down

adj. squatting close to the ground; "poorly clothed men huddled low against the wind"; "he stayed in the ditch hunkered down"

dormant(ip), sleeping

adj. lying with head on paws as if sleeping

flat, prostrate

adj. stretched out and lying at full length along the ground; "found himself lying flat on the floor"

hunched, round-backed, round-shouldered, stooped, stooping, crooked

adj. having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect; "a little oldish misshapen stooping woman"

kneeling

adj. (unerect)

leaning

adj. departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal; "the leaning tower of Pisa"; "the headstones were tilted"

lolling, lounging

adj. lying in a relaxed manner

prone, prostrate

adj. lying face downward

slouched, slouching, slumped

adj. with shoulders drooping

supine, resupine

adj. lying face upward

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