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uncrying

adjective

Not crying; without tears.

Scrabble 14

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Meanings

adjectiveuncrying (not comparable)

not comparableNot crying; without tears.
[…] the pair of babies stood up to stare about them with the impassive, uncrying gaze of patriarchs.
1987, Colin Thubron, chapter 3, in Behind the Wall: A Journey through China, London: Vintage, published 2001, page 72
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Lots of people had loved her; they came to put flowers near and to say goodbye. They came out of her room with quiet, uncrying eyes, stood a moment by the fire in the studio, looking deep into it, and then they went away.
1944, Emily Carr, “A Visitor”, in The House of All Sorts

Origin

From un- + crying.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with uncrying

trying buying flying applying dying lying crying drying denying spying tying complying implying frying dyeing defying vying undying prying sighing plying scrying decrying retrying

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APA

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MLA

“uncrying.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/uncrying. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “uncrying,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/uncrying.

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