Antonyms for complaint
kəmˈpleɪntcom·plaint

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

1. complaint

   Disease is the general term for any deviation from health; in a more limited sense it denotes some definite morbid condition; disorder and affection are rather partial and limited; as, a nervous affection; a disorder of the digestive system. Sickness was generally used in English speech and literature, till the close of the eighteenth century at least, for every form of physical disorder, as abundantly appears in the English Bible: "Jesus went about ... healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people," Matt. iv, 23; "Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he died," 2 Kings xiii, 14. There is now, in England, a tendency to restrict the words sick and sickness to nausea, or "sickness at the stomach," and to hold ill and illness as the only proper words to use in a general sense. This distinction has received but a very limited acceptance in the United States, where sick and sickness have the earlier and wider usage. We speak of trifling ailments, a slight indisposition, a serious or a deadly disease; a slight or severe illness; a painful sickness. Complaint is a popular term, which may be applied to any degree of ill health, slight or severe. Infirmity denotes a chronic or lingering weakness or disability, as blindness or lameness.

   Antonyms:
   health, robustness, soundness, strength, sturdiness, vigor

   Synonyms:
   affection, ailment, disease, disorder, distemper, illness, indisposition, infirmity, malady, sickness, unhealthiness, unsoundness

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

1. complaint

   Antonyms:
   congratulation, rejoicing, approbation, complacency, boon, benefit, applause, jubilee, health, sanity

   Synonyms:
   murmur, discontent, repining, grievance, annoyance, remonstrance, expostulation, lamentation, sickness, disease

Matched Categories

1. • Civil Law
   • Criminal Law
   • Cry
   • Disorder
   • Objection
   • Pleading

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. ailment, complaint, illnoun

   an often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining

   Synonyms:
   ill, charge, ailment

2. complaintnoun

   (formerly) a loud cry (or repeated cries) of pain or rage or sorrow

   Synonyms:
   ill, charge, ailment

3. complaintnoun

   an expression of grievance or resentment

   Synonyms:
   ill, charge, ailment

4. complaintnoun

   (civil law) the first pleading of the plaintiff setting out the facts on which the claim for relief is based

   Synonyms:
   ill, charge, ailment

5. charge, complaintnoun

   (criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense

   "he was arrested on a charge of larceny"

   Synonyms:
   direction, ailment, bearing, mission, bang, ill, heraldic bearing, commission, thrill, kick, bursting charge, care, burster, armorial bearing, charge, tutelage, billing, cathexis, explosive charge, accusation, electric charge, guardianship, flush, boot, rush

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1. complaintnoun

   Synonyms:
   murmur, plaint, lamentation, malady, ailment, disease, accusation, allegation, information

How to use complaint in a sentence?

1. Burmese Proverb:

   Suffering is the necessary consequence of sin, just as when you eat a sour fruit a stomach complaint ensues.

2. Stockdale Walden:

   Angiostrongylus cantonensis can present differently in adults and children. So usually, in adults, one of the main things that you hear complaint of is a headache.

3. Murasiet Mentoor:

   He complained that he wanted a bath. They [correctional services) built a bath in his cell. He also had a complaint about his bed. And they replaced his bed for him.

4. Alexander Pope:

   The general cry is against ingratitude, but the complaint is misplaced, it should be against vanity; none but direct villains are capable of willful ingratitude; but almost everybody is capable of thinking he hath done more that another deserves, while the other thinks he hath received less than he deserves.

5. Nancy Pelosi:

   Reports of a reliable whistleblower complaint regarding the president's communications with a foreign leader raise grave, urgent concerns for our national security, if the president has done what has been alleged, then he is stepping into a dangerous minefield with serious repercussions for his administration and our democracy.

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