Word Meanings - COMPLAIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

plangere to strike, beat, to beat the breast or head as a sign of 1. To give utterance to expression of grief, pain, censure, regret. etc.; to lament; to murmur; to find fault; -- commonly used with of. Also, to creak or squeak, as a timber or

Additional info about word: COMPLAIN

plangere to strike, beat, to beat the breast or head as a sign of 1. To give utterance to expression of grief, pain, censure, regret. etc.; to lament; to murmur; to find fault; -- commonly used with of. Also, to creak or squeak, as a timber or wheel. O lose of sight, of three I most complain! Milton. 2. To make a formal accusation; to make a charge. Now, Master Shallow, you'll complain of me to the king Shak. Syn. -- To repine; grumble; deplore; bewail; grieve; mourn; regret; murmur.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of COMPLAIN)

• Croak
• Complain
• murmur
• grumble
• Grieve
• Trouble
• burden
• annoy
• distress
• bewail
• wound
• pain
• sorrow
• hurt
• afflict
• mourn
• lament
• complain
• deplore
• Repine
• Murmur

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of COMPLAIN)

• Soothe
• compose
• please
• gratify
• gladden
• console
• elate
• comfort
• Compose
• calm
• allay
• appease
• soothe
• delight
• recreate
• entertain
• relieve
• refresh

Related words: (words related to COMPLAIN)

• SORROW
  The uneasiness or pain of mind which is produced by the loss of any good, real or supposed, or by diseappointment in the expectation of good; grief at having suffered or occasioned evil; regret; unhappiness; sadness. Milton. How great
• DELIGHTING
  Giving delight; gladdening. -- De*light"ing*ly, adv. Jer. Taylor.
• COMFORTLESS
  Without comfort or comforts; in want or distress; cheerless. Comfortless through turanny or might. Spenser. Syn. -- Forlorn; desolate; cheerless; inconsolable; disconsolate; wretched; miserable. -- Com"fort*less*ly, adv. -- Com"fort*less*ness, n.
• TROUBLER
  One who troubles or disturbs; one who afflicts or molests; a disturber; as, a troubler of the peace. The rich troublers of the world's repose. Waller.
• LAMENTING
  Lamentation. Lamentings heard i' the air. Shak.
• SORROWED
  Accompanied with sorrow; sorrowful. Shak.
• BEWAIL
  To express deep sorrow for, as by wailing; to lament; to wail over. Hath widowed and unchilded many a one, Which to this hour bewail the injury. Shak. Syn. -- To bemoan; grieve. -- See Deplore.
• GRIEVE
  1. To occasion grief to; to wound the sensibilities of; to make sorrowful; to cause to suffer; to affect; to hurt; to try. Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God. Eph. iv. 30. The maidens grieved themselves at my concern. Cowper, 2. To sorrow over;
• MOURNFUL
  Full of sorrow; expressing, or intended to express, sorrow; mourning; grieving; sad; also, causing sorrow; saddening; grievous; as, a mournful person; mournful looks, tones, loss. -- Mourn"ful*ly, adv. -- Mourn"ful*ness, n. Syn. -- Sorrowful;
• DELIGHTLESS
  Void of delight. Thomson.
• BEWAILING
  Wailing over; lamenting. -- Be*wail"ing*ly, adv.
• REPINER
  One who repines.
• AFFLICTIVELY
  In an afflictive manner.
• BURDENER
  One who loads; a oppressor.
• COMFORTABLY
  In a comfortable or comforting manner. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem. Is. xl. 2.
• CONSOLE
  A bracket whose projection is not more than half its height. Any small bracket; also, a console table. Console table, a table whose top is supported by two or more consoles instead of legs.
• AFFLICTIVE
  Giving pain; causing continued or repeated pain or grief; distressing. "Jove's afflictive hand." Pope. Spreads slow disease, and darts afflictive pain. Prior.
• AFFLICTING
  Grievously painful; distressing; afflictive; as, an afflicting event. -- Af*flict"ing*ly, adv.
• DEPLOREDNESS
  The state of being deplored or deplorable. Bp. Hail.
• COMPOSE
  To arrange in a composing stick in order for printing; to set . (more info) 1. To form by putting together two or more things or parts; to put together; to make up; to fashion. Zeal ought to be composed of the hidhest degrees of all
• MANDELATE
  A salt of mandelic acid.
• OVERTROUBLED
  Excessively troubled.
• FILAMENTOUS
  Like a thread; consisting of threads or filaments. Gray.
• SPHACELATE
  To die, decay, or become gangrenous, as flesh or bone; to mortify.
• DECOMPOSE
  To separate the constituent parts of; to resolve into original elements; to set free from previously existing forms of chemical combination; to bring to dissolution; to rot or decay.
• DISCOMFORTABLE
  1. Causing discomfort; occasioning uneasiness; making sad. Sir P. Sidney. 2. Destitute of comfort; uncomfortable. A labyrinth of little discomfortable garrets. Thackeray. -- Dis*com"fort*a*ble*ness, n.