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Synonyms for complaint
kəmˈpleɪntcom·plaint

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English Synonyms and Antonyms2.0 / 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.

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

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

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms2.0 / 1 vote

  1. complaint

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

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

Princeton's WordNet1.0 / 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

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. complaintnoun

    Synonyms:
    murmur, lamention, plaint, lament, wail

  2. complaintnoun

    Synonyms:
    malady, disease, ailment, ail, illness, indisposition, disorder, distemper, sickness

  3. complaintnoun

    Synonyms:
    accusation, charge, information against

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words2.0 / 1 vote

  1. complaintnoun

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

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How to use complaint in a sentence?

  1. W. E. B. Du Bois:

    A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.

  2. Jose Luis Icedo:

    It is very easy for anyone to go to a hardware store and buy rat poison, in the case of strays, there is nobody to file a complaint.

  3. Michael Atkinson:

    Whats at stake here goes well beyond this complaint and this president.

  4. Oliver Wendell Holmes:

    Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

  5. Samuel Walker:

    What we have begun to learn in Chicago is they do a lousy job of investigating( those complaints), you can't use their bad performance as evidence to say the complaint was unfounded. The problems begin to compound each other.


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