Word Meanings - MURMURING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Uttering murmurs; making low sounds; complaining. -- Mur"mur*ing*ly, adv.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MURMURING)

• Querulous
• Quarrelsome
• complaining
• fretful
• repining
• discontented
• dissatisfied
• chiding
• murmuring
• whining
• peevish
• fastidious
• irritable

Related words: (words related to MURMURING)

• CHIDESTER
  A female scold.
• REPINER
  One who repines.
• WHINYARD
  from AS. winn contention, war + geard, gyrd, a staff, rod, yard; or 1. A sword, or hanger. 2. Etym: The shoveler. The poachard.
• IRRITABLE
  Endowed with irritability; susceptible of irritation; capable of being excited to action by the application of certain stimuli. (more info) 1. Capable of being irriated. 2. Very susceptible of anger or passion; easily inflamed or exasperated; as,
• WHINE
  A plaintive tone; the nasal, childish tone of mean complaint; mean or affected complaint.
• CHIDER
  One who chides or quarrels. Shak.
• MURMUR
  1. A low, confused, and indistinct sound, like that of running water. 2. A complaint half suppressed, or uttered in a low, muttering voice. Chaucer. Some discontents there are, some idle murmurs. Dryden.
• PEEVISH
  1. Habitually fretful; easily vexed or fretted; hard to please; apt to complain; querulous; petulant. "Her peevish babe." Wordsworth. She is peevish, sullen, froward. Shak. 2. Expressing fretfulness and discontent, or unjustifiable dissatisfaction;
• MURMUROUS
  Attended with murmurs; exciting murmurs or complaint; murmuring. The lime, a summer home of murmurous wings. Tennyson.
• WHINNER
  To whinny.
• WHINGER
  A kind of hanger or sword used as a knife at meals and as a weapon. The chief acknowledged that he had corrected her with his whinger. Sir W. Scott.
• CHIDERESS
  She who chides.
• WHINOCK
  The small pig of a litter.
• REPININGLY
  With repening or murmuring.
• FASTIDIOUS
  Difficult to please; delicate to fault; suited with difficulty; squeamish; as, a fastidious mind or ear; a fastidious appetite. Proud youth ! fastidious of the lower world. Young. Syn. -- Squeamish; critical; overnice; difficult; punctilious. --
• MURMURATION
  The act of murmuring; a murmur. Skelton.
• PEEVISHLY
  In a peevish manner. Shak.
• PEEVISHNESS
  The quality of being peevish; disposition to murmur; sourness of temper. Syn. -- See Petulance.
• MURMURER
  One who murmurs.
• COMPLAINTFUL
  Full of complaint.
• GLOCHIDIUM
  The larva or young of the mussel, formerly thought to be a parasite upon the parent's gills.
• RACHIDIAN
  Of or pertaining to the rachis; spinal; vertebral. Same as Rhachidian.
• ORCHIDEOUS
  See ORCHIDACEOUS
• ORCHIDOLOGY
  The branch of botany which treats of orchids.
• DISCONTENT
  Not content; discontented; dissatisfied. Jer. Taylor. Passion seemed to be much discontent, but Patience was very quiet. Bunyan.
• PETTYWHIN
  The needle furze. See under Needle.
• ORCHIDOLOGIST
  One versed in orchidology.