Antonyms for complain
kəmˈpleɪncom·plain

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1. complainverb

   Synonyms:
   kvetch, whinge, grouse, moan, whine, bitch, gripe, beef, grumble, grump

2. complainverb

   To express feelings of pain, dissatisfaction, or resentment.

   Joe was always complaining about the noise made by his neighbours.

   Synonyms:
   bitch, kvetch, grump, grumble, whinge, moan, gripe, grouse, whine, beef

3. complainverb

   To make a formal accusation or bring a formal charge.

   They've complained about me to the police again.

   Synonyms:
   kvetch, grumble, whinge, gripe, whine, moan, beef, bitch, grouse, grump

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.5 / 4 votes

1. complain

   To complain is to give utterance to dissatisfaction or objection, express a sense of wrong or ill treatment. One complains of a real or assumed grievance; he may murmur through mere peevishness or ill temper; he repines, with vain distress, at the irrevocable or the inevitable. Complaining is by speech or writing; murmuring is commonly said of half-repressed utterance; repining of the mental act alone. One may complain of an offense to the offender or to others; he remonstrates with the offender only. Complain has a formal and legal meaning, which the other words have not, signifying to make a formal accusation, present a specific charge; the same is true of the noun complaint.

   Antonyms:
   applaud, approve, commend, eulogize, laud, praise

   Synonyms:
   croak, find fault, growl, grumble, grunt, murmur, remonstrate, repine

   Preposition:
   Complain of a thing to a person; of one person to another, of or against a person for an act; to an officer; before the court; about a thing.

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1. complain, kick, plain, sound off, quetch, kvetchverb

   express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness

   "My mother complains all day"; "She has a lot to kick about"

   Antonyms:
   chirk up, cheer up, cheer

   Synonyms:
   recoil, plain, kvetch, quetch, give up, kick, strike up, kick back, animadvert, speak out, sound off, opine, speak up

2. complainverb

   make a formal accusation; bring a formal charge

   "The plaintiff's lawyer complained that he defendant had physically abused his client"

   Antonyms:
   cheer, chirk up, cheer up

   Synonyms:
   kick, kvetch, plain, sound off, quetch

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1. complainverb

   Synonyms:
   murmur, repine, grumble, whine, croak

How to use complain in a sentence?

1. Jim Kelly:

   I have no room to complain, if tomorrow the good Lord decides that's my last day, then I'm not going to go down with a frown. I'm going down with a smile on my face, knowing that I've gotten everything out of life.

2. Thomas Melia:

   People in a free society are allowed to complain about their leaders and their performances.

3. Lawson Craddock:

   When I got No. 13 I tried to tell myself it was lucky, but when I hit that bottle in the feed zone it was one of the first things that came into my mind, but at this point, something really great has come out of it. It is hard for me to sit there and complain about a broken shoulder when people are suffering and have not so much more than I have.

4. Douglas Bazi:

   I never talked about my story for many reasons but, first, because this is the cost [of being] a Christian in Iraq, second because, as a priest, we are used to persecution. When we get in the seminarythey tell us: ‘You don’t know, maybe youwill be killed one day.’ Third,I don’t want people to feel sorry for me. Who I am to complain?

5. Charles de LEUSSE:

   Murderers sow death, and complain of the desert. (Meurtriers sèment la mort, - Et se plaignent du désert.)

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