different between cry vs unlachrymose

English

Etymology

From Middle English crien, from Old French crier (“to announce publicly, proclaim, scream, shout”) (whence Medieval Latin cr?d? (“to cry out, shout, publish, proclaim”)), from Frankish *kr?tan (“to cry, cry out, publish”), from Proto-Germanic *kr?tan? (“to cry out, shout”), from Proto-Indo-European *greyd- (“to shout”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian kriete (“to cry”), Dutch krijten (“to cry”) and krijsen (“to shriek”), German Low German krieten (“to cry, call out, shriek”), German kreißen (“to cry loudly, wail, groan”), Gothic ???????????????????????????? (kreitan, “to cry, scream, call out”), Latin gingr?tus (“the cackling of geese”), Middle Irish grith (“a cry”), Welsh gryd (“a scream”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?a??/
• Homophone: krai
• Rhymes: -a?

Verb

cry (third-person singular simple present cries, present participle crying, simple past and past participle cried)

1. (intransitive) To shed tears; to weep.
2. (transitive) To utter loudly; to call out; to declare publicly.
3. (transitive, intransitive) To shout, scream, yell.
4. (intransitive) To utter inarticulate sounds, as animals do.
5. (transitive) To cause to do something, or bring to some state, by crying or weeping.

6. To make oral and public proclamation of; to notify or advertise by outcry, especially things lost or found, goods to be sold, etc.
   • 1652, Richard Crashaw, The Beginning of Heliodorus

     Love is lost, and thus she cries him.

7. Hence, to publish the banns of, as for marriage.
   • 1845, Sylvester Judd, Margaret: A Tale of the Real and the Ideal, Blight and Bloom; Including Sketches of a Place Not Before Described, Called Mons Christi

     I should not be surprised if they were cried in church next Sabbath.

Conjugation

Synonyms

• bawl
• blubber
• sob
• wail
• weep
• whimper
• See also Thesaurus:weep
• See also Thesaurus:shout

Antonyms

• laugh

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

cry (plural cries)

1. A shedding of tears; the act of crying.

   After we broke up, I retreated to my room for a good cry.

2. A shout or scream.

   I heard a cry from afar.

3. Words shouted or screamed.

   a battle cry

4. A clamour or outcry.
5. (collectively) A group of hounds.
   • 1667, Milton, Paradise Lost, Book II, in Edward Hawkins, The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors, Vol. I, W. Baxter, J. Parker, G. B. Whittaker (publs., 1824) pages 124 to 126, lines 648 to 659.

6. (by extension, obsolete, derogatory) A pack or company of people.
7. (of an animal) A typical sound made by the species in question.

   "Woof" is the cry of a dog, while "neigh" is the cry of a horse.
8. A desperate or urgent request.
9. (obsolete) Common report; gossip.

Derived terms

• battle cry
• hue and cry
• war cry

Translations

See also

• breastfeeding
• crocodile tears

References

• Webster, Noah (1828) , “cry”, in An American Dictionary of the English Language
• cry in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• cry in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Cyr, Cyr., RYC

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French cri.

Noun

cry m (plural crys)

1. cry; shout

Descendants

• French: cri

Scots

Etymology

Middle English, from Old French crier.

Verb

cry (third-person singular present cries, present participle cryin, past cried, past participle cried)

1. to call, to give a name to
   • A body whit studies the history is cried a historian an aw.

English

Etymology

un- +? lachrymose

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ?nl?k?r?m?s, IPA^(key): /?n?læk??m??s/

Adjective

unlachrymose (not comparable)

1. Not lachrymose.
   1. Free from dejection and melancholy; not vexed or weighed down by circumstances.
      • 1852: The New Monthly Magazine, volume 95, page 324

        The only articulate sounds that could be distinguished, were the impatient exclamations of hungry soldiers, clamouring for their schnapps and suppers, and throwing the toiling sutlers into a frenzy of bewilderment.?The spectacle, too, was of an equally joyous and unlachrymose description.

   2. Tearless; not given to crying.
      • 1853: Notes and Queries, volume 7, page 97

        When the devil was going out of the possessed person, he was supposed to do so with reluctance: “The spirit cried, and rent him sore, and came out of him: and he was as one dead; insomuch that many said, He is dead.” (St. Mark, ix. 26.)?The tears and struggles of the infant would therefore be a convincing proof that the Evil One had departed.?In Ireland (as every clergyman knows) nurses will decide the matter by pinching the baby, rather than allow him to remain silent and unlachrymose.

      • 1944: Franklin Pierce Adams, Nods and Becks, page 126 (Whittlesey House)

        And as to the slumber of infants, it is no guess of mine that to sleep like a baby is not always to lie quiet and unlachrymose all night.

   3. Unsentimental.
      1. Unamenable to appeals of emotion.
         • 1975: The Spectator, volume 235, part 2, page 13 (F.C. Westley)

           But the really dangerous people would be the servants, la valetaille et la piétaille, the cold-eyed, unimpressionable, unlachrymose, and, when encountered in a corridor, insolent observers of Rousseau’s magisterial performances.

      2. Not schmaltzy; expressed without gratuitous sorrow.
         • 1983: Jean Pierre Coursodon et alii, American Directors, volume 1, page 112 (McGraw-Hill; ?ISBN, 9780070132610)

           His films with Temple are surprisingly light and unlachrymose.

         • 1984: Alan Blyth and Malcolm Walker [eds.], Opera on Record, volume 2, page 126 (Hutchinson)

           Ezio Pinza (DB 828; GEMM 162/3), recorded in 1924, offers unlachrymose singing of the lovely aria ‘Cinta di fiori’.

         • 1989: Gareth Reeves, T.S. Eliot: A Virgilian Poet, page 156 (Macmillan; ?ISBN, 9780333443903)

           For instance, there is the sparely stated consolation of the poem’s concluding paragraph, or the sinewy articulation of the lines in ‘The Dry Salvages’ I distinguishing the sea’s ‘different voices’, and culminating in unlachrymose sympathy for the ‘anxious worried women’: an effect achieved by the way in which their anxiety is syntactically submerged, and thereby enhanced, in the unwinding sentence delineating time’s relentlessness.

         • 1990: Joel Flegler, Fanfare, volume 13, issues 5–6, page 368 (sub nomine sui)

           The off-handed elegance and freedom of Dino Borgioli’s Duke make him seem utterly charming and irresistible. His use of legato and the sweetness he can call upon are worthy of an unlachrymose Gigli.

   4. Unmournful; free from lamentation.
      • 1998: Leon Wieseltier, Kaddish, page 54 (Knopf; ?ISBN, 9780375403897)

        I conclude that the kaddish, in Rashi’s day, played only its traditional role, in and out of the context of mourning. It was still a liturgical corollary to a pedagogical activity. Indeed, in Rashi’s reading, the liturgy of mourning that the kaddish accompanied was itself not construed as an expression of mourning, even if it was expressed by mourners. “Neither a lament nor a dirge”: this seems odd. In this unlachrymose interpretation of the prayer of justification, Rashi seems to have divorced language from reality. Of course these words are a lament and a dirge! Just see where they are said.