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Definitions for Weeping

[1] expressing grief, sorrow, or any overwhelming emotion by shedding tears: weeping multitudes.
[2] tearful; weepy: a weeping fit.
[3] tending or liable to cry; given to crying.
[4] dripping or oozing liquid.
[5] (of trees, shrubs, etc.) having slender, drooping branches.
[6] to express grief, sorrow, or any overpowering emotion by shedding tears; shed tears; cry: to weep for joy; to weep with rage.
[7] to let fall drops of water or other liquid; drip; leak: The old water tank was weeping at the seams.
[8] to exude water or liquid, as soil, a rock, a plant stem, or a sore.
[9] to weep for (someone or something); mourn with tears or other expression of sorrow: He wept his dead brother.
[10] to shed (tears); pour forth in weeping: to weep tears of gratitude.
[11] to let fall or give forth in drops: trees weeping an odorous gum.
[12] to pass, bring, put, etc., to or into a specified condition with the shedding of tears (usually followed by away, out, etc.): to weep one's eyes out; to weep oneself to sleep.
[13] weeping, or a fit of weeping.
[14] the exudation of water or liquid.
[15] (of plants) having slender hanging branches
[16] to shed (tears) as an expression of grief or unhappiness
[17] (tr foll by out ) to utter, shedding tears
[18] (when intr, foll by for ) to mourn or lament (for something)
[19] to exude (drops of liquid)
[20] (intr) (of a wound, etc) to exude a watery or serous fluid
[21] a spell of weeping

Words related to Weeping

teary, wailing, sobbing, teary-eyed, blubbering, howling, nodding, tearful, weepy, grievous, mournful, sad, sorrowful, pendulous, cernuous

Words nearby Weeping

weep buckets, weep hole, weeper, weepers, weepie, weeping, weeping fig, weeping golden bell, weeping ivy, weeping lovegrass, weeping myall

Origin of Weeping

1before 900; Middle English wepen, Old English wēpan to wail; cognate with Gothic wōpjan to call, Old Norse æpa to cry out

Other words from Weeping

weep·ing·ly , adverb
un·weep·ing , adjective

Word origin for Weeping

Old English wēpan; related to Gothic wōpjan, Old High German wuofan, Old Slavonic vabiti to call

Synonyms for Weeping

sobbing, teary, teary-eyed, wailing, blubbering, howling, tearful, weepy