ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

cry &c (vociferation) 411; scream, howl; outcry, wail of woe, ululation; frown, scowl.
tear; weeping &c v.; flood of tears, fit of crying, lacrimation, lachrymation † , melting
mood, weeping and gnashing of teeth.
plaintiveness &c adj.; languishment † ; condolence &c 915.
mourning, weeds, willow, cypress, crape, deep mourning; sackcloth and ashes;
lachrymatory † ; knell &c 363; deep death song, dirge, coronach † , nenia † , requiem, elegy,
epicedium † ; threne † ; monody, threnody; jeremiad, jeremiade † ; ullalulla † .
mourner; grumbler &c (discontent) 832; Noobe; Heraclitus.
V. lament, mourn, deplore, grieve, weep over; bewail, bemoan; condole with &c 915; fret
&c (suffer) 828; wear mourning, go into mourning, put on mourning; wear the willow,
wear sackcloth and ashes; infandum renovare dolorem [Lat.] [Vergil]; &c (regret) 833
give sorrow words.
sigh; give a sigh, heave, fetch a sigh; waft a sigh from Indus to the pole [Pope]; sigh
'like a furnace' [As you Like It]; wail.
cry, weep, sob, greet, blubber, pipe, snivel, bibber † , whimper, pule; pipe one's eye;
drop tears, shed tears, drop a tear, shed a tear; melt into tears, burst into tears; fondre en
larmes [Fr.]; cry oneself blind, cry one's eyes out; yammer.
scream &c (cry out) 411; mew &c (animal sounds) 412; groan, moan, whine; roar;
roar like a bull, bellow like a bull; cry out lustily, rend the air.
frown, scowl, make a wry face, gnash one's teeth, wring one's hands, tear one's hair,
beat one's breast, roll on the ground, burst with grief.
complain, murmur, mutter, grumble, growl, clamor, make a fuss about, croak, grunt,
maunder; deprecate &c (disapprove) 932.
cry out before one is hurt, complain without cause.
Adj. lamenting &c v.; in mourning, in sackcloth and ashes; sorrowing, sorrowful &c
(unhappy) 828; 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 [Hamlet].
elegiac, epicedial † .
Adv. de profundis [Lat.]; les larmes aux yeux [Fr.].
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! [Lat.], O lud lud! † , too true!,
Phr. 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 [Julius Caesar]; interdum lacrymae pondera vocis habent [Lat.] [Ovid];
strangled his language in his tears [Henry VIII]; tears such as angels weep [Paradise
Lost].
840. Amusement -- N. amusement, entertainment, recreation, fun, game, fun and games;
diversion, divertissement; reaction, solace; pastime, passetemps [Fr.], sport; labor of
love; pleasure &c 827.
relaxation; leisure &c 685.