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. County Clerk Vicki Edelman:

   They really can’t complain if they did not participate in the voting. I would think they wouldn’t feel like they should complain, and from what I’m hearing on the news, a lot of those protesters did not vote.

2. 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?

3. Marc Benioff:

   This is one half of one percent, it's immaterial... these numbers are so small, they mean nothing to these companies, for them to squawk over or to complain and say that they won't give $ 10 million or $ 20 million to the number one issue in the city, really calls into question their motives for being in business at all.

4. Odell Beckham Jr.:

   You would expect that from him, he’s not going to sit there and complain about it and do all these other things. He’s just going to go out there and play.

5. Ronald Firbank:

   The world is so dreadfully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain.

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