Word Meanings - COMPLAINER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who complains or laments; one who finds fault; a murmurer. Beattie. Speechless complainer, I will learn thy thought. Shak.

Related words: (words related to COMPLAINER)

• FAULTINESS
  Quality or state of being faulty. Round, even to faultiness. Shak.
• SPEECHLESS
  1. Destitute or deprived of the faculty of speech. 2. Not speaking for a time; dumb; mute; silent. Speechless with wonder, and half dead with fear. Addison. -- Speech"less*ly, adv. -- Speech"less*ness, n.
• THOUGHT
  imp. & p. p. of Think.
• LEARN
  linon, for lirnon, OHG. lirnen, lernen, G. lernen, fr. the root of AS. l to teach, OS. lerian, OHG.leran, G. lehren, Goth. laisjan, also Goth lais I know, leis acquainted ; all prob. from a root meaning, to go, go over, and hence, to learn; cf.
• THOUGHTLESS
  1. Lacking thought; careless; inconsiderate; rash; as, a thoughtless person, or act. 2. Giddy; gay; dissipated. Johnson. 3. Deficient in reasoning power; stupid; dull. Thoughtless as monarch oaks that shade the plain. Dryden. -- Thought"less*ly,
• FAULT
  A lost scent; act of losing the scent. Ceasing their clamorous cry till they have singled, With much ado, the cold fault cleary out. Shak. (more info) falta), fr. a verb meaning to want, fail, freq., fr. L. fallere to 1. Defect; want;
• FAULTING
  The state or condition of being faulted; the process by which a fault is produced.
• THOUGHTFUL
  1. Full of thought; employed in meditation; contemplative; as, a man of thoughtful mind. War, horrid war, your thoughtful walks invades. Pope. 2. Attentive; careful; exercising the judgment; having the mind directed to an object; as, thoughtful
• MURMURER
  One who murmurs.
• FAULT-FINDING
  The act of finding fault or blaming; -- used derogatively. Also Adj.
• LEARNER
  One who learns; a scholar.
• LEARNED
  Of or pertaining to learning; possessing, or characterized by, learning, esp. scholastic learning; erudite; well-informed; as, a learned scholar, writer, or lawyer; a learned book; a learned theory. The learnedlover lost no time. Spenser. Men of
• COMPLAINER
  One who complains or laments; one who finds fault; a murmurer. Beattie. Speechless complainer, I will learn thy thought. Shak.
• THOUGHT TRANSFERENCE
  Telepathy.
• LEARNING
  1. The acquisition of knowledge or skill; as, the learning of languages; the learning of telegraphy. 2. The knowledge or skill received by instruction or study; acquired knowledge or ideas in any branch of science or literature; erudition;
• FAULTLESS
  Without fault; not defective or imperfect; free from blemish; free from incorrectness, vice, or offense; perfect; as, a faultless poem. Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be. Pope. Syn.
• FAULTFUL
  Full of faults or sins. Shak.
• FAULTY
  1. Containing faults, blemishes, or defects; imperfect; not fit for the use intended. Created once So goodly and erect, though faulty since. Milton. 2. Guilty of a fault, or of faults; hence, blamable; worthy of censure. Shak. The king doth speak
• LEARNABLE
  Such as can be learned.
• FAULT-FINDER
  One who makes a practice off discovering others' faults and censuring them; a scold.
• PICK-FAULT
  One who seeks out faults.
• HALF-LEARNED
  Imperfectly learned.
• BETHOUGHT
  imp. & p. p. of Bethink.
• FORETHOUGHT
  Thought of, or planned, beforehand; aforethought; prepense; hence, deliberate. "Forethought malice." Bacon.
• NEW THOUGHT
  Any form of belief in mental healing other than Christian Science and hypnotism or psychotherapy. Its central principle is affirmative thought, or suggestion, employed with the conviction that man produces changes in his health, his finances,
• UNLEARN
  1. To forget, as what has been learned; to lose from memory; also, to learn the contrary of. I had learned nothing right; I had to unlearn everything. Milner. 2. To fail to learn. Dr. H. More.
• FINDFAULTING
  Apt to censure or cavil; faultfinding; captious. Whitlock.
• UNLEARNED
  1. Not learned; untaught; uneducated; ignorant; illiterate. 2. Not gained by study; not known. 3. Not exhibiting learning; as, unlearned verses. -- Un*learn"ed*ly, adv. -- Un*learn"ed*ness, n.
• FINDFAULT
  A censurer or caviler.
• OVERLEARNED
  Too learned. -- O"ver*learn"ed, adv. -- O"ver*learn"ed*ness, n.
• DEFAULTER
  1. One who makes default; one who fails to appear in court when court when called. 2. One who fails to perform a duty; a delinquent; particularly, one who fails to account for public money intrusted to his care; a peculator; a defalcator.