crying in WordNet English dictionary

1. demanding attention
   "clamant needs"; "a crying need"; "regarded literary questions as exigent and momentous"- H.L.Mencken; "insistent hunger"; "an instant need"
   clamant  crying  exigent  insistent  instant 
   
2. conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
   "a crying shame"; "an egregious lie"; "flagrant violation of human rights"; "a glaring error"; "gross ineptitude"; "gross injustice"; "rank treachery"
   crying  egregious  flagrant  glaring  gross  rank 
   

1. 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"
   crying  weeping  tears