Word Meanings - COMPLAINT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A formal allegation or charge against a party made or presented to the appropriate court or officer, as for a wrong done or a crime committed ; an information; accusation; the initial bill in proceedings in equity. Syn. -- Lamentation; murmuring;

Additional info about word: COMPLAINT

A formal allegation or charge against a party made or presented to the appropriate court or officer, as for a wrong done or a crime committed ; an information; accusation; the initial bill in proceedings in equity. Syn. -- Lamentation; murmuring; sorrow; grief; disease; illness; disorder; malady; ailment. (more info) 1. Expression of grief, regret, pain, censure, or resentment; lamentation; murmuring; accusation; fault-finding. I poured out my complaint before him. Ps. cxlii. 2. Grievous complaints of you. Shak. 2. Cause or subject of complaint or murmuring. The poverty of the clergy in England hath been the complaint of all who wish well to the church. Swift. 3. An ailment or disease of the body. One in a complaint of his bowels. Arbuthnot.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of COMPLAINT)

• Ailment
• Complaint
• sickness
• illness
• disease
• Disease
• disorder
• indisposition
• distemper
• ailment
• malady
• Grievance
• Burden
• injury
• complaint
• trouble
• oppression
• hardship
• injustice
• Disorder

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of COMPLAINT)

• Compose
• calm
• allay
• appease
• please
• soothe
• delight
• gratify
• recreate
• entertain
• relieve
• refresh

Related words: (words related to COMPLAINT)

• DELIGHTING
  Giving delight; gladdening. -- De*light"ing*ly, adv. Jer. Taylor.
• DISTEMPERATE
  1. Immoderate. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. Diseased; disordered. Wodroephe.
• TROUBLER
  One who troubles or disturbs; one who afflicts or molests; a disturber; as, a troubler of the peace. The rich troublers of the world's repose. Waller.
• INJUSTICE
  1. Want of justice and equity; violation of the rights of another or others; iniquity; wrong; unfairness; imposition. If this people resembled Nero in their extravagance, much more did they resemble and even exceed him in cruelty and injustice.
• DELIGHTLESS
  Void of delight. Thomson.
• AILMENT
  Indisposition; morbid affection of the body; -- not applied ordinarily to acute diseases. "Little ailments." Landsdowne.
• ILLNESS
  1. The condition of being ill, evil, or bad; badness; unfavorableness. "The illness of the weather." Locke. 2. Disease; indisposition; malady; disorder of health; sickness; as, a short or a severe illness. 3. Wrong moral conduct; wickedness.
• HARDSHIP
  That which is hard to hear, as toil, privation, injury, injustice, etc. Swift.
• BURDENER
  One who loads; a oppressor.
• DISTEMPERATURE
  1. Bad temperature; intemperateness; excess of heat or cold, or of other qualities; as, the distemperature of the air. 2. Disorder; confusion. Shak. 3. Disorder of body; slight illness; distemper. A huge infectious troop Of pale distemperatures
• COMPOSE
  To arrange in a composing stick in order for printing; to set . (more info) 1. To form by putting together two or more things or parts; to put together; to make up; to fashion. Zeal ought to be composed of the hidhest degrees of all
• DISEASEFUL
  1. Causing uneasiness. Disgraceful to the king and diseaseful to the people. Bacon. 2. Abounding with disease; producing diseases; as, a diseaseful climate.
• COMPOSER
  1. One who composes; an author. Specifically, an author of a piece of music. If the thoughts of such authors have nothing in them, they at least . . . show an honest industry and a good intention in the composer. Addison. His most brilliant and
• PLEASER
  One who pleases or gratifies.
• ENTERTAINER
  One who entertains.
• OPPRESSION
  1. The act of oppressing, or state of being oppressed. 2. That which oppresses; a hardship or injustice; cruelty; severity; tyranny. "The multitude of oppressions." Job xxxv. 9. 3. A sense of heaviness or obstruction in the body or mind;
• TROUBLESOME
  Giving trouble or anxiety; vexatious; burdensome; wearisome. This troublesome world. Book of Common Prayer. These troublesome disguises that we wear. Milton. My mother will never be troublesome to me. Pope. Syn. -- Uneasy; vexatious; perplexing;
• DELIGHTOUS
  Delightful. Rom. of R.
• REFRESHMENT
  1. The act of refreshing, or the state of being refreshed; restoration of strength, spirit, vigor, or liveliness; relief after suffering; new life or animation after depression. 2. That which refreshes; means of restoration or reanimation;
• DISEASEFULNESS
  The quality of being diseaseful; trouble; trial. Sir P. Sidney.
• HODGKIN'S DISEASE
  A morbid condition characterized by progressive anæmia and enlargement of the lymphatic glands; -- first described by Dr. Hodgkin, an English physician.
• JUMPING DISEASE
  A convulsive tic similar to or identical with miryachit, observed among the woodsmen of Maine.
• ASSAILMENT
  The act or power of assailing; attack; assault. His most frequent assailment was the headache. Johnson.
• OVERTROUBLED
  Excessively troubled.
• DECOMPOSE
  To separate the constituent parts of; to resolve into original elements; to set free from previously existing forms of chemical combination; to bring to dissolution; to rot or decay.
• SHRILLNESS
  The quality or state of being shrill.
• AGGRIEVANCE
  Oppression; hardship; injury; grievance.
• OVERPLEASE
  To please excessively.
• WAILMENT
  Lamentation; loud weeping; wailing. Bp. Hacket.