hue and cry

1. 1.

   loud and persistent outcry from many people

   “he ignored the clamor of the crowd”

   Synonymsclamorclamoringclamourclamouring

   Broadercry

Questions about hue and cry

What does hue and cry mean?

hue and cry means "loud and persistent outcry from many people".

What is another word for hue and cry?

Close synonyms include clamor, clamoring, clamour, clamouring. 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 hue and cry a common word?

hue and cry 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.