Synonyms:
lamenting, wailing, wailful
Meaning: vocally expressing grief or sorrow or resembling such expression; "lamenting sinners"; "wailing mourners"; "the wailing wind"; "wailful bagpipes"; "tangle her desires with wailful sonnets"- Shakespeare
noun
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
wailing, bawling
Meaning: loud cries made while weeping
Usage examples
Do you not like my wailing better?"
They could hear the wailing of sirens now.
"He must have clothes, you know," said the poor woman, wailing.
Soon he came to a teepee from whence loud wailing voices broke.
Crouching low to the marshy ground, he listened to the wailing voice.
It was sad, indeed, to hear the mother wailing aloud for her little son.
Polly flew to Phronsie, who was clinging to Grandpapa's hand, and wailing bitterly.
And louder above the sound of wailing came the roars of the Drilgoes swarming along the causeway.
But a loud, wailing scream downstairs caused both her and Mr. McCaskey to pause in a sort of involuntary armistice.
There was no sound save the hooting of an owl in the distance, and the wailing note of some mournful-minded water-fowl.