wailing

Speech parts

1. wailing - Noun

2. wailing - Verb

4. wailing - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Wail

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

lamenting wailful bawling pule howl lamentation bawl keen beating grief mourning cry crying screaming scream
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Antonyms

jolly twitter blithe roaring bellowing hee-haw
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Hypernyms

crying weeping tears

Examples

The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere. William Cullen Bryant

So I'm at the wailing wall, standing there like a moron, with my harpoon. Emo Philips

Her mind lives tidily, apart from cold and noise and pain. And bolts the door against her heart, out wailing in the rain. Dorothy Parker

I suppose you don't have much time for enjoying music," Clary said, thinking of Simon, for whom music was his entire life, "in your line of work." He shrugged. "Maybe the occasional wailing chorus of the damned. Cassandra Clare

it is a heartBreaking sound, Amir Jan, the Wailing of a mother. I pray to Allah you Never hear it. Khaled Hosseini

When had a slave religion proved anything but an aid to the conqueror? Slaves needed a wailing wall; they went into their temples, prayed to their gods to deliver them from oppression, and came out to work in the fields and factories, relaxed and made harmless by the emotional catharsis of prayer. Robert A. Heinlein

Close letter words and terms

Wailes wailful wailfully Wailing Wall wailingly wailment