WEEPING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does weeping mean? 

• WEEPING (noun)
  The noun WEEPING has 1 sense:

1. the process of shedding tears (usually accompanied by sobs or other inarticulate sounds)

  Familiarity information: WEEPING used as a noun is very rare.

• WEEPING (adjective)
  The adjective WEEPING has 2 senses:

1. showing sorrow

2. having branches or flower heads that bend downward

  Familiarity information: WEEPING used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WEEPING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The process of shedding tears (usually accompanied by sobs or other inarticulate sounds)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

crying; tears; weeping

Context example:

she was in tears

Hypernyms ("weeping" is a kind of...):

activity; bodily function; bodily process; body process (an organic process that takes place in the body)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "weeping"):

snivel; sniveling (whining in a tearful manner)

sob; sobbing (convulsive gasp made while weeping)

bawling; wailing (loud cries made while weeping)

Derivation:

weep (shed tears because of sadness, rage, or pain)

• WEEPING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Showing sorrow

Synonyms:

dolorous; dolourous; lachrymose; tearful; weeping

Similar:

sorrowful (experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Having branches or flower heads that bend downward

Synonyms:

cernuous; drooping; nodding; pendulous; weeping

Context example:

lilacs with drooping panicles of fragrant flowers

Similar:

unerect (not upright in position or posture)

Domain category:

biological science; biology (the science that studies living organisms)

 Context examples 

Eliza and I went to look at her: Georgiana, who had burst out into loud weeping, said she dared not go.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Then he asked: Why are you weeping?

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

She rose on seeing us enter, and when we were left alone with her, she threw herself at the feet of Elizabeth, weeping bitterly.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Mrs. Hudson was waiting, trembling and weeping, in the passage.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Her face was turned away from him, but he could see, by the sharp intake of her breath, that she was weeping bitterly.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My mother was weeping over his poor leg, and he patting her hair with one brown hand.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then she kissed the Tin Woodman, who was weeping in a way most dangerous to his joints.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

The poor girl laid me on her bosom, and fell a weeping with shame and grief.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

She buried her head on my shoulder, her frail form shaken with a storm of weeping.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Mercedes ceased weeping over the dogs, being too occupied with weeping over herself and with quarrelling with her husband and brother.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)