weeping (root: weep)

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: weep=ing
• COUNT in NET: 53 in 50 verses (in OT : 29 in 28 verses) (in NT : 24 in 22 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

weeping, n. 

 The act of one who weeps; lamentation with tears; shedding of tears.  [1913 Webster]

weeping, a. 

•  Grieving; lamenting; shedding tears.  I. Watts.  [1913 Webster]
•  Discharging water, or other liquid, in drops or very slowly; surcharged with water.  Mortimer.  [1913 Webster]
•  Having slender, pendent branches; -- said of trees; as, weeping willow; a weeping ash.  [1913 Webster]
•  Pertaining to lamentation, or those who weep.  [1913 Webster]

Weeping cross, a cross erected on or by the highway, especially for the devotions of penitents; hence, to return by the weeping cross, to return from some undertaking in humiliation or penitence. -- Weeping rock, a porous rock from which water gradually issues. -- Weeping sinew, a ganglion. See Ganglion, n., 2. [Colloq.] -- Weeping spring, a spring that discharges water slowly.

THESAURUS

weeping

awash, bathed, bawling, blubbering, cascading, cry, crying, dangling, deluged, dependent, depending, dipped, dissolved in tears, drenched, dribbling, dripping, dripping wet, drowned, effusion, engulfed, excretion, exfiltration, external secretion, extravasation, exudation, falling, falling loosely, filtering, filtration, fit of crying, flood of tears, flooded, flowing, good cry, greet, hanging, hung, immersed, in tears, internal secretion, inundated, lachryma, lachrymal, lachrymose, lachrymosity, lacrimation, lacrimatory, lactation, leaching, lixiviation, macerated, melting mood, ooze, oozing, overflowed, overflowing eyes, pendent, pending, pendulant, pendular, penduline, pendulous, pensile, percolating, percolation, permeated, ready to cry, saturated, secernment, secreta, secretion, seep, seepage, seeping, sniveling, soaked, soaking, soaking wet, soaky, sobbing, sodden, soggy, sopping, sopping wet, soppy, soused, steeped, straining, submerged, submersed, suspended, swamped, swinging, tear, tear bottle, teardrop, tearful, tearful eyes, tearfulness, tears, teary, transudation, waterlogged, watersoaked, weep, weepiness, weepy, weltering, whelmed, whimpering, with eyes suffused, wringing wet

ROGET THESAURUS

weeping

Lamentation

N lament, lamentation, wail, complaint, plaint, murmur, mutter, grumble, groan, moan, whine, whimper, sob, sigh, suspiration, heaving, deep sigh, cry, scream, howl, outcry, wail of woe, ululation, frown, scowl, tear, weeping, flood of tears, fit of crying, lacrimation, lachrymation, melting mood, weeping and gnashing of teeth, plaintiveness, languishment, condolence, mourning, weeds, willow, cypress, crape, deep mourning, sackcloth and ashes, lachrymatory, knell, deep death song, dirge, coronach, nenia, requiem, elegy, epicedium, threne, monody, threnody, jeremiad, jeremiade, ullalulla, mourner, grumbler, Noobe, Heraclitus, lamenting, in mourning, in sackcloth and ashes, sorrowing, sorrowful, mournful, tearful, lachrymose, plaintive, plaintful, querulous, querimonious, in the melting mood, threnetic, in tears, with tears in one's eyes, with moistened eyes, with watery eyes, bathed in tears, dissolved in tears, like Niobe all tears, elegiac, epicedial, de profundis, les larmes aux yeux, Int, heigh-ho!, alas!, alack!, O dear!, ah me!, woe is me!, lackadaisy!, well a day!, lack a day!, alack a day!, wellaway!, alas the day!, O tempora O mores!, what a pity!, miserabile dictu!, O lud lud!, too true!, tears standing in the eyes, tears starting from the eyes, eyes suffused, eyes swimming, eyes brimming, eyes overflowing with tears, if you have tears prepare to shed them now, interdum lacrymae pondera vocis habent, strangled his language in his tears, tears such as angels weep.