What does crying mean?
Word: Crying
Part of Speech: Verb
Meaning: Crying means letting tears fall from your eyes because you are sad, hurt or sometimes very happy. Crying can also mean calling out in a loud voice.
Synonyms: weeping, sobbing, wailing
Antonyms: smiling
How do you spell crying?
Syllables: cry - ing
Tricky part: The y of cry stays when ing is added. Some children change it to i (criing) or drop it altogether (cring).
Watch out for: criing, crieing, cring
Memory tip: Cry keeps its y before ing, just as fly becomes flying and dry becomes drying. The y never goes away before ing.
Idioms and Phrases
- no use crying over spilt milk: There is no point being upset about something that has already happened and cannot be changed. Example: "The vase is broken, but there is no use crying over spilt milk; let us clean up."
Crying in a sentence
Example 1: The baby started crying when the lights went out.
Example 2: Sana was crying with joy when her brother came home from Dubai.
Example 3: The little boy was crying because his kite got stuck in a tree.
Fun Fact
Newborn babies usually cry without tears for the first few weeks, because their tear glands are still getting ready.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Connection
Choose the antonym of the word:
crying
a) frowning
b) sulking
c) laughing
d) sneezing
Show answer
c) laughing. Crying shows sadness and laughing shows joy, so they are opposites.
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the correctly spelt word:
a) crying
b) giggleing
c) whispring
d) showting
Show answer
a) crying. Crying is just cry with ing added; the other three each get one part wrong.
Word Cookie
Find the extra letter in the word:
cryeing
a) y
b) e
c) i
d) g
Show answer
b) e. Cry plus ing needs no e in between.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
ygcrin
a) crying
b) cyring
c) crinyg
d) cryign
Show answer
a) crying. Start with cry, the small word you already know, and put ing after it.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. At the mela, a man was crying, 'Hot samosas, ten rupees!' He was ____.
a) weeping because he was sad
b) telling people what he sold
c) whispering to a friend
d) singing a sad song
Show answer
b) telling people what he sold
2. Which of these is a happy reason for crying?
a) losing your favourite toy
b) hurting your knee badly
c) missing the school bus
d) meeting a long-lost friend
Show answer
d) meeting a long-lost friend
