Thesaurus:complain
English
Verb
Sense: to express feelings of pain, dissatisfaction, or resentment
Synonyms
- beef
- bellyache
- bemoan
- bitch
- bleat
- carp
- chunter
- complain
- crab
- croak
- dump on
- frine
- girn
- give out
- grumble
- grotch
- grouse
- grouch
- grump
- gruntle
- gripe
- harp
- inveigh
- kvetch
- latrate (obsolete)
- make a stink
- murmur [⇒ thesaurus]
- mutter [⇒ thesaurus]
- moan
- nag
- nark
- nudzh
- pinch (obsolete)
- piss and moan
- rail
- repine
- ride
- snivel
- whine
- whinge
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See also
Further reading
- “839. lamentation” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “complain” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.