sobber
- noun
- /ˈsɑbər/
:
llorón
- During the sad movie, the audience became a group of loud sobbers as they cried together.
Examples
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After hearing the heartbreaking news, she turned into a sobber, unable to control her tears.
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You know, everybody in my group tells me that I'm a sucker for the sobbers.
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Meep, meep, meep, you sound like Sweet Sarah, Soppy Sobber of the Spanish Main.
Fiction book (1990) -
You want a sloppy mess of tissue-dropping, blubber-mouthed sobbers?
Fiction book (2001) -
Toward this child with his glasses and braces, this bed-wetter and sobber in his sleep, worried at age eight about his diet and already seeing a therapist, toward this small bundle of bones and anxieties, not at all the sort of grandchild he would ever have imagined having, Bernstein felt a stab of protective love such as he had never felt before in his life.
Fiction book (1995) -
At the memorial service, many sobbers filled the room, expressing their grief openly.
Synonyms
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3.7
A person who cries or complains too easily
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6.1
A person who often sheds tears, for example at sad movies
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6.5
A person who often cries in sad or emotional situations
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7.9
A person who cries loudly for a long time to show they are very sad, often at funerals
A person or animal who cries loudly when upset
A person who cries loudly and uncontrollably
A person who cries loudly and acts very upset
A person who cries easily or often
Antonyms
How Tearful
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Sobber comes from the simple sound sob, a short sharp cry, plus the ending -er that means 'one who'. So a sobber is 'one who sobs', a person who cries loudly and cannot stop.