cry out for

1. 1.

   need badly or desperately

   “This question cries out for an answer”

   Synonymscry for

   Broadernecessitate

Questions about cry out for

What does cry out for mean?

cry out for means "need badly or desperately".

What is another word for cry out for?

Close synonyms include cry 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 out for a common word?

cry out for is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.