cry for

1. 1.

   need badly or desperately

   “This question cries out for an answer”

   Synonymscry out for

   Broadernecessitate

Questions about cry for

What does cry for mean?

cry for means "need badly or desperately".

What is another word for cry for?

Close synonyms include cry out for. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cry for a common word?

cry for is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.