1091 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ kəmplˈe͡ɪnɪŋ], [ kəmplˈe‍ɪnɪŋ], [ k_ə_m_p_l_ˈeɪ_n_ɪ_ŋ]

Similar words for complaining:

• all (adjective)
• censorious (adjective)
• disappointed (adjective)
• discontented (adjective)
• discontented/discontent (adjective)
• dissatisfied (adjective)
• fretful (adjective)
• grumbling (adjective)
• irritable (adjective)
• malcontent (adjective)
• objecting (adjective)
• other relevant words (adjective)
• peevish (adjective)
• petulant (adjective)
• querulous (adjective)
• quibbling (adjective)
• complaining (noun)
• fault-finding (noun)
• lament/lamentation (noun)
• other relevant words (noun)
• accusing (verb)
• disagreeing (verb)
• protesting (verb)
• suing (verb)
• other synonyms
• other relevant words
• other relevant words (noun)

Paraphrases for complaining

Synonyms for Complaining:

• adj.

  • all (adjective)
  • complaining,
  • complaintive.
  • censorious (adjective)
  • more condemnatory,
  • more reproaching,
  • hyper-critical,
  • dis approving,
  • most disapproving,
  • more cavillous,
  • dis-approving,
  • over-critical,
  • more denouncing,
  • most reprehending,
  • more condemning,
  • most denouncing,
  • more reprehending,
  • most condemnatory,
  • more disapproving,
  • most culpatory,
  • most cavillous,
  • more chiding,
  • fault finding,
  • more caviling,
  • overcritical,
  • hyper critical,
  • more culpatory,
  • most condemning,
  • most chiding,
  • most reproaching,
  • most caviling.
  • disappointed (adjective)
  • worsted,
  • up set,
  • down in dumps,
  • shot down,
  • chapfallen,
  • down in the dumps,
  • taken down,
  • hopeless,
  • unsatisfied.
  • discontented (adjective)
  • dis-contented,
  • dis contented,
  • most bitching,
  • more bitching.
  • discontented/discontent (adjective)
  • ex-asperated,
  • more ungratified,
  • dis-content,
  • dis content,
  • most ungratified,
  • dis-quieted,
  • dis pleased,
  • un-gratified,
  • more griping,
  • most vexed,
  • more disquieted,
  • most malcontented,
  • more malcontented,
  • most exasperated,
  • more kvetching,
  • most kvetching,
  • most discontented,
  • ex asperated,
  • dis quieted,
  • dis-pleased,
  • dis affected,
  • dis-affected,
  • more exasperated,
  • most griping,
  • most disquieted,
  • un gratified,
  • more vexed.
  • dissatisfied (adjective)
  • more irked,
  • more fedup,
  • most putout,
  • more unsated,
  • more unassuaged,
  • un appeased,
  • most begrudging,
  • more begrudging,
  • un sated,
  • most grudging,
  • un assuaged,
  • most unsated,
  • more fretting,
  • be grudging,
  • most unappeased,
  • more grudging,
  • most put-out,
  • fedup,
  • in-satiable,
  • un-assuaged,
  • more put out,
  • unfulfilled,
  • un-fulfilled,
  • dis satisfied,
  • most fretting,
  • not satisfied,
  • dis-satisfied,
  • most irked,
  • more ennuied,
  • most sniveling,
  • putout,
  • more put-out,
  • most fed up,
  • un-sated,
  • most unfulfilled,
  • more unfulfilled,
  • un fulfilled,
  • in satiable,
  • more fed up,
  • more sniveling,
  • be-grudging,
  • most ennuied,
  • most put out,
  • un-appeased,
  • more putout,
  • most unassuaged,
  • most fedup,
  • put-out,
  • faultfinding,
  • more unappeased,
  • more fed-up,
  • most fed-up.
  • fretful (adjective)
  • more splenetic,
  • wreckest,
  • fractious,
  • un-easiest,
  • un easier,
  • out sorts,
  • most splenetic,
  • huffy,
  • shorttempered,
  • un-easier,
  • un easiest,
  • snappish,
  • short tempered,
  • worried,
  • splenetic,
  • un easy.
  • grumbling (adjective)
  • more moaning,
  • most moaning.
  • irritable (adjective)
  • oversensitive,
  • out of humor,
  • bearish,
  • easily offended,
  • ill-humored.
  • malcontent (adjective)
  • most belly aching,
  • most belly-aching,
  • more belly-aching,
  • more belly aching,
  • more bellyaching,
  • belly aching,
  • most bellyaching.
  • objecting (adjective)
  • lamenting,
  • Deploring.
  • Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • querulous,
  • kvetching,
  • disappointed,
  • Malcontented,
  • Cavillous,
  • out-of-sorts,
  • ungratified,
  • malcontent,
  • dissatisfied,
  • Culpatory,
  • unsated,
  • over critical,
  • petulant,
  • discontented,
  • grousing,
  • Unassuaged,
  • waspy,
  • peevish,
  • belly-aching,
  • condemnatory,
  • fed-up,
  • ennuied,
  • unappeased,
  • wrecker,
  • censorious,
  • quibbling.
  • peevish (adjective)
  • waspiest,
  • more cussed,
  • more out-of-sorts,
  • illnatured,
  • more grousing,
  • most out of sorts,
  • most whining,
  • more out of sorts,
  • most growling,
  • most grousing,
  • ill natured,
  • more whining,
  • badtempered,
  • ogrer,
  • waspier,
  • most cussed,
  • most out-of-sorts,
  • ogrest,
  • bad tempered,
  • more growling.
  • petulant (adjective)
  • more crybaby,
  • up-tight,
  • most pouting,
  • un-gracious,
  • whiniest,
  • more pouting,
  • up tight,
  • most crybaby,
  • un gracious,
  • whinier.
  • querulous (adjective)
  • huffy irascible,
  • Grumbly,
  • thin-skinned touchy,
  • out of sorts peevish.
  • quibbling (adjective)
  • most nit-picking,
  • nit picking,
  • most hairsplitting,
  • more nit-picking,
  • nit-picking,
  • more nit picking,
  • more hairsplitting.

• n.

  •
  • moaning,
  • registering a protest,
  • crabby,
  • filing a complaint,
  • Fretting,
  • resentful,
  • murmuring,
  • critical,
  • Bewailing,
  • bellyaching,
  • Regretting,
  • disapproving,
  • weeping,
  • kicking,
  • irritable,
  • kvetchy.
  • complaining (noun)
  • repining,
  • whiny,
  • whiney,
  • fretful,
  • whining,
  • protesting,
  • protestant,
  • grumbling.
  • fault-finding (noun)
  • Fault-finding.
  • lament/lamentation (noun)
  • complainings,
  • grievings.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • threnody,
  • moanings,
  • keening,
  • jeremiad,
  • plaint,
  • keens,
  • weepings,
  • ululation,
  • lamentation,
  • lament,
  • keenings,
  • plaints,
  • wailing.

• v.

  • accusing (verb)
  • Arraigning,
  • criticizing,
  • accusing,
  • Reproaching,
  • Impeaching,
  • Charging,
  • Blaming,
  • condemning,
  • Denouncing,
  • Inculpating,
  • Implicating,
  • incriminating,
  • Citing,
  • Alleging,
  • scolding,
  • Imputing.
  • disagreeing (verb)
  • contending,
  • differing,
  • conflicting,
  • disagreeing,
  • challenging,
  • clashing,
  • Defying,
  • arguing,
  • Demurring,
  • Rejecting,
  • Repudiating,
  • opposing,
  • bickering,
  • antagonizing,
  • Objecting,
  • dissenting,
  • Disputing,
  • colliding.
  • protesting (verb)
  • disparaging,
  • Ridiculing,
  • grouching,
  • denigrating,
  • Detracting,
  • deprecating.
  • suing (verb)
  • Litigating,
  • Subpoenaing,
  • Prosecuting,
  • Suing,
  • Indicting.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • mourning,
  • unwillingly.
  •
  • objection.
  • Other relevant words:
  • depreciative,
  • pissed,
  • level,
  • bill,
  • craze,
  • send,
  • murmur vowel,
  • bilious,
  • ira,
  • take to task,
  • bawl out,
  • call,
  • sharp,
  • screechy,
  • jejune,
  • crisp,
  • pertinacious,
  • itchy,
  • sluggish,
  • unrealised,
  • fierceness,
  • blame,
  • short-circuit,
  • grouch,
  • myopic,
  • curtly,
  • begrudge,
  • bellow,
  • bloody-minded,
  • shriek,
  • differ,
  • fretfulness,
  • diversionist,
  • commove,
  • eumenides,
  • scrimy,
  • care,
  • agitate,
  • hot-tempered,
  • quick-tempered,
  • electric charge,
  • sourness,
  • ill at ease,
  • feisty,
  • controversy,
  • commission,
  • stung,
  • crusted,
  • crank,
  • covetously,
  • disgusting,
  • gloomy,
  • hybridize,
  • elegy,
  • temperamental,
  • tutelage,
  • cover,
  • call on the carpet,
  • hybridisation,
  • rumbling,
  • likeable,
  • stubborn,
  • perverted,
  • snappy,
  • cardiac murmur,
  • calumnious,
  • hysteria,
  • awkward,
  • gross,
  • bristly,
  • give up,
  • yawp,
  • sound off,
  • croak,
  • overstrung,
  • consign,
  • get over,
  • riled,
  • cheering,
  • harassed,
  • pettishness,
  • get across,
  • gross out,
  • combative,
  • squeaky,
  • chopfallen,
  • dourly,
  • point,
  • hindering,
  • tow car,
  • contrary,
  • mission,
  • unrealized,
  • high-strung,
  • hollo,
  • outcry,
  • irritably,
  • scotch,
  • unobliging,
  • ill,
  • roiled,
  • rouse,
  • insistent,
  • rebarbative,
  • crossbreeding,
  • inadequate,
  • fractiously,
  • ticklish,
  • anxious,
  • chiding,
  • bitingly,
  • contestation,
  • cry out,
  • furnace lining,
  • accusive,
  • hybridization,
  • reprimand,
  • blazon out,
  • self-contradictory,
  • unsatiated,
  • harried,
  • spoil,
  • furor,
  • fussiness,
  • recusant,
  • crisscross,
  • deflated,
  • rancor,
  • score,
  • glaring,
  • acidity,
  • tremendous,
  • exclaim,
  • instant,
  • highly strung,
  • shortsighted,
  • sullen,
  • squabble,
  • squawker,
  • upset,
  • foul,
  • worsted yarn,
  • commit,
  • forgetful,
  • hilarious,
  • disagree,
  • recoil,
  • infelicitous,
  • churn up,
  • madness,
  • screech,
  • murmuration,
  • disconnected,
  • antsy,
  • undisciplined,
  • cult,
  • chew out,
  • thrill,
  • abruptly,
  • crab,
  • impeding,
  • bitter,
  • dress down,
  • roaring,
  • yucky,
  • hue and cry,
  • shortstop,
  • vociferation,
  • distaste,
  • deplore,
  • odium,
  • defamatory,
  • off,
  • tear,
  • libelous,
  • irritability,
  • bereavement,
  • persistent,
  • tenacious,
  • burden,
  • stomach ache,
  • delirium,
  • loth,
  • shrewish,
  • file,
  • fad,
  • scratchy,
  • laconic,
  • guardianship,
  • pissed off,
  • repel,
  • quetch,
  • fantastic,
  • load,
  • marvelous,
  • crossing,
  • argument,
  • turn,
  • contentious,
  • plain,
  • hollow,
  • tongue-lashing,
  • loathly,
  • squeaking,
  • whiner,
  • rancid,
  • cut through,
  • turn on,
  • tearful,
  • huffish,
  • brusque,
  • holla,
  • frustrated,
  • precipitous,
  • mutter,
  • outrage,
  • intersect,
  • track,
  • tears,
  • hate,
  • glowering,
  • rancour,
  • lodge,
  • chide,
  • apprehensive,
  • uproarious,
  • bereaved,
  • unservile,
  • ill will,
  • crossness,
  • frustrate,
  • lienal,
  • scant,
  • abomination,
  • unquiet,
  • mad,
  • take issue,
  • crybaby,
  • erinyes,
  • retardation,
  • talk,
  • storm,
  • dour,
  • peeved,
  • squall,
  • hybrid,
  • tartness,
  • screaky,
  • saturnine,
  • mark,
  • roar,
  • reportage,
  • depraved,
  • skreigh,
  • hard,
  • screak,
  • jealous,
  • whispering,
  • pettishly,
  • grand,
  • kick back,
  • furiousness,
  • transversal,
  • pettish,
  • disputation,
  • shrieking,
  • ramp,
  • feel for,
  • crustlike,
  • skreak,
  • intriguing,
  • boot,
  • egregious,
  • heart murmur,
  • squally,
  • prickly,
  • nodding,
  • institutionalise,
  • tilt,
  • revolt,
  • clamant,
  • clamouring,
  • repellant,
  • libellous,
  • ululate,
  • depreciatory,
  • clamor,
  • verbalise,
  • mussitation,
  • rumble,
  • glumly,
  • antagonism,
  • bellowing,
  • decisive,
  • unbridled,
  • saddle,
  • loath,
  • cathexis,
  • jaw,
  • denigrative,
  • slighting,
  • doleful,
  • tender,
  • yell,
  • holloa,
  • rallying cry,
  • belittling,
  • despitefully,
  • yammer,
  • remonstrance,
  • bursting charge,
  • thwartwise,
  • passion,
  • peckish,
  • wayward,
  • derogatory,
  • crown of thorns,
  • light,
  • little,
  • cernuous,
  • bilk,
  • yelling,
  • give tongue to,
  • dead,
  • false,
  • pendulous,
  • ill-affected,
  • stomachache,
  • stew,
  • scold,
  • saboteur,
  • dolorous,
  • morose,
  • appoint,
  • lambast,
  • techy,
  • pity,
  • backbite,
  • calumniatory,
  • nervous,
  • raring,
  • lecture,
  • nervy,
  • fuss,
  • rag,
  • drooping,
  • thought-provoking,
  • piercingly,
  • suddenly,
  • splenic,
  • nettlesome,
  • unmanageable,
  • lambaste,
  • dark,
  • jittery,
  • particular,
  • impeach,
  • call down,
  • sicken,
  • jumpy,
  • sniveller,
  • frenzy,
  • misanthropic,
  • slanderous,
  • testily,
  • moaner,
  • trounce,
  • busy,
  • utter,
  • encrusted,
  • discontent,
  • gloomful,
  • yowl,
  • shoot,
  • kvetch,
  • immune,
  • excite,
  • repelling,
  • keen,
  • armorial bearing,
  • pestered,
  • off-key,
  • sorrowing,
  • criminate,
  • terse,
  • sympathize with,
  • wrawl,
  • requiem,
  • atrabilious,
  • insubordinate,
  • loathsome,
  • scream,
  • exigent,
  • surliness,
  • wildness,
  • war cry,
  • at odds,
  • see red,
  • vehemence,
  • wonderful,
  • thwart,
  • dysphoric,
  • bicker,
  • flagrant,
  • temper,
  • bang,
  • turned,
  • averting,
  • criminatory,
  • liverish,
  • glooming,
  • disputative,
  • berate,
  • contention,
  • crabbed,
  • boeuf,
  • acidulate,
  • skanky,
  • protestant church,
  • holler out,
  • revolting,
  • unchecked,
  • direction,
  • glum,
  • discomfited,
  • work,
  • hotheaded,
  • deprecatory,
  • shortly,
  • explosive charge,
  • rebuke,
  • disaffected,
  • thwarted,
  • clamour,
  • battle cry,
  • thin-skinned,
  • dolourous,
  • disturbed,
  • cunt,
  • resist,
  • uptight,
  • unforesightful,
  • flush,
  • ire,
  • rush,
  • protestation,
  • ornery,
  • hostility,
  • address,
  • brusk,
  • queer,
  • spat,
  • bawling,
  • nettled,
  • foil,
  • execration,
  • excitable,
  • tippy,
  • ferment,
  • incriminate,
  • institutionalize,
  • loathing,
  • have words,
  • reprobate,
  • hybridise,
  • tow truck,
  • distasteful,
  • shoot down,
  • vital,
  • opponent,
  • chew up,
  • ambitious,
  • niggardly,
  • mouth,
  • gruff,
  • crossbreed,
  • wail,
  • gall,
  • gnarl,
  • likable,
  • accusatory,
  • unsympathetic,
  • defeated,
  • marvellous,
  • acidify,
  • disgustful,
  • incriminatory,
  • bellyacher,
  • heraldic bearing,
  • disobliging,
  • unawares,
  • steamed,
  • deprecative,
  • biliousness,
  • queasy,
  • beef cattle,
  • bearing,
  • picky,
  • accusative,
  • interbreeding,
  • sore,
  • baffle,
  • delicate,
  • susurrant,
  • sweep,
  • contradictory,
  • rattling,
  • traverse,
  • unretentive,
  • transverse,
  • misanthropical,
  • shout out,
  • dogged,
  • buck,
  • bereft,
  • grief-stricken,
  • wondrous,
  • uncurbed,
  • snappishness,
  • furore,
  • coronach,
  • hybridizing,
  • billing,
  • poor,
  • growl,
  • cut across,
  • gastralgia,
  • moan,
  • terrific,
  • shout,
  • burster,
  • criminative,
  • pass over,
  • violence,
  • interbreed,
  • yawl,
  • crestfallen,
  • coverage,
  • dissident,
  • sympathetic,
  • acetify,
  • rank,
  • fidgety,
  • distressed,
  • tolerant,
  • miffed,
  • call out,
  • foiled,
  • vocation,
  • career,
  • derogative,
  • condole with,
  • bitterness,
  • accusal,
  • watchword,
  • tiff,
  • retardent,
  • bear down,
  • short-change,
  • nauseate,
  • wicked,
  • angriness,
  • rail,
  • litigious,
  • expostulation,
  • lachrymose,
  • objurgation,
  • point out,
  • obstinate,
  • disquieted,
  • charge up,
  • express,
  • covetous,
  • choler,
  • span,
  • denigratory.
  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • bellyache,
  • complainer,
  • noncooperative,
  • moodily,
  • calling,
  • shouting,
  • clamoring,
  • querulant,
  • grudging,
  • groaning,
  • perverse,
  • petulantly,
  • edgy,
  • touchily,
  • verbalize,
  • grieving,
  • Crabbing,
  • Whimpering,
  • Resisting,
  • short,
  • curt,
  • angrily,
  • peevishly,
  • finical,
  • grumpily,
  • rebellious,
  • fussy,
  • unaccommodating,
  • grizzling,
  • detestation,
  • ill-natured,
  • speak,
  • gripe,
  • grouchy,
  • resistant,
  • retardant,
  • reporting,
  • protest,
  • displeasure,
  • carping,
  • ferocity,
  • ill-tempered,
  • disgruntled,
  • impatient,
  • bewail,
  • pet peeve,
  • hatred,
  • Sniping,
  • up in arms,
  • Bleating,
  • resentfully,
  • reluctant,
  • beef,
  • jealously,
  • argumentative,
  • bad-tempered,
  • wailful,
  • irritated,
  • rage,
  • grouchily,
  • tetchy,
  • grudge,
  • ill-humoured,
  • petulance,
  • appealing,
  • dissent,
  • dissatisfaction,
  • Remonstrating,
  • cranky,
  • weep,
  • anger,
  • abrupt,
  • disagreeable,
  • enmity,
  • ungoverned,
  • peeve,
  • disputatious,
  • maliciously,
  • squalling,
  • Animadverting,
  • railing,
  • screaming,
  • complain,
  • testy,
  • sulkily,
  • kick,
  • antipathy,
  • over-particular,
  • charge,
  • Retardative,
  • crotchety,
  • hypercritical,
  • recalcitrant,
  • growling,
  • crossly,
  • grumble,
  • murmur,
  • waspish,
  • Opining,
  • croon,
  • annoyed,
  • complaint,
  • unyielding,
  • unaccepting,
  • wrath,
  • complainingly,
  • groan,
  • plaintive,
  • spitefully,
  • resent,
  • ailment,
  • resistive,
  • crying,
  • dissentient,
  • displeased,
  • Ululant,
  • sorrowful,
  • fury,
  • bitch,
  • curmudgeonly,
  • repellent,
  • holler,
  • Cavilling,
  • Withstanding,
  • indignantly,
  • plangent,
  • bitching,
  • in a pique,
  • cantankerously,
  • worriedly,
  • maundering,
  • Piqued,
  • crusty,
  • cross,
  • accuse,
  • finicky,
  • sulky,
  • Recoiling,
  • aversion,
  • mournful,
  • screeching,
  • cynical,
  • enviously,
  • captious,
  • disgust,
  • grumpy,
  • Renitent,
  • peevishness,
  • muttering,
  • uncooperative,
  • Moanful,
  • uneasy,
  • moody,
  • churlish,
  • dyspeptic,
  • short-tempered,
  • restless,
  • Squawking,
  • abhorrence,
  • vexed,
  • hollering,
  • accusation,
  • compassionate,
  • nagging,
  • bemoan,
  • refractory,
  • indignation,
  • howling,
  • unsubmissive,
  • yapping,
  • remonstrate,
  • Bemoaning,
  • difficult,
  • displease,
  • obstructive,
  • resentment,
  • Grumblingly,
  • quarrelsome,
  • querulously,
  • grouse,
  • querulousness,
  • irascible,
  • howl,
  • cantankerous,
  • cry,
  • sour,
  • Griping,
  • restive,
  • touchy,
  • choleric,
  • Snarling,
  • tetchily,
  • grievance,
  • bitterly,
  • Complaintful,
  • repine,
  • grumbler,
  • Puling,
  • beefing,
  • envious,
  • bawl,
  • croaking,
  • unhappy,
  • squealing,
  • squawk,
  • sullenly,
  • dirge.

Paraphrases for Complaining:

• Equivalence

  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    Griping.

• Independent

  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    accusing, appealing, arguing, asserting, challenging, condemning, contending, crying, defending, demanding, disturbing, emphasizing, exercising, failing, heckling, highlighting, hurting, insisting, intruding, kicking, lamenting, mourning, naming, pleading, pointing, pretending, protesting, questioning, recourse, running, saying, suffering, telling, troubling, upsetting, whining, Affirming, Alleging, Bemoaning, Bothering, Choosing, Citing, Claiming, Declaring, Deploring, Disputing, Expressing, Interrupting, Invoking, Mooning, Noting, Objecting, Reclaiming, Referring, Regretting, Relying, Requesting, Resorting, Ruing, Commenting, Contesting, Stating, Submitting, Suggesting, Suing, stressing, underlining, demonstrating, says, bitching, bugging.

• Other Related

  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    moaning, Decrying, Denouncing.