Word Meanings - MURMURING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Uttering murmurs; making low sounds; complaining. -- Mur"mur*ing*ly, adv.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MURMURING)
- Querulous
- Quarrelsome
- complaining
- fretful
- repining
- discontented
- dissatisfied
- chiding
- murmuring
- whining
- peevish
- fastidious
- irritable
Related words: (words related to MURMURING)
- CHIDESTER
A female scold. - REPINER
One who repines. - WHINYARD
from AS. winn contention, war + geard, gyrd, a staff, rod, yard; or 1. A sword, or hanger. 2. Etym: The shoveler. The poachard. - IRRITABLE
Endowed with irritability; susceptible of irritation; capable of being excited to action by the application of certain stimuli. (more info) 1. Capable of being irriated. 2. Very susceptible of anger or passion; easily inflamed or exasperated; as, - WHINE
A plaintive tone; the nasal, childish tone of mean complaint; mean or affected complaint. - CHIDER
One who chides or quarrels. Shak. - MURMUR
1. A low, confused, and indistinct sound, like that of running water. 2. A complaint half suppressed, or uttered in a low, muttering voice. Chaucer. Some discontents there are, some idle murmurs. Dryden. - PEEVISH
1. Habitually fretful; easily vexed or fretted; hard to please; apt to complain; querulous; petulant. "Her peevish babe." Wordsworth. She is peevish, sullen, froward. Shak. 2. Expressing fretfulness and discontent, or unjustifiable dissatisfaction; - MURMUROUS
Attended with murmurs; exciting murmurs or complaint; murmuring. The lime, a summer home of murmurous wings. Tennyson. - WHINNER
To whinny. - WHINGER
A kind of hanger or sword used as a knife at meals and as a weapon. The chief acknowledged that he had corrected her with his whinger. Sir W. Scott. - CHIDERESS
She who chides. - WHINOCK
The small pig of a litter. - REPININGLY
With repening or murmuring. - FASTIDIOUS
Difficult to please; delicate to fault; suited with difficulty; squeamish; as, a fastidious mind or ear; a fastidious appetite. Proud youth ! fastidious of the lower world. Young. Syn. -- Squeamish; critical; overnice; difficult; punctilious. -- - MURMURATION
The act of murmuring; a murmur. Skelton. - PEEVISHLY
In a peevish manner. Shak. - PEEVISHNESS
The quality of being peevish; disposition to murmur; sourness of temper. Syn. -- See Petulance. - MURMURER
One who murmurs. - COMPLAINTFUL
Full of complaint. - GLOCHIDIUM
The larva or young of the mussel, formerly thought to be a parasite upon the parent's gills. - RACHIDIAN
Of or pertaining to the rachis; spinal; vertebral. Same as Rhachidian. - ORCHIDEOUS
See ORCHIDACEOUS - ORCHIDOLOGY
The branch of botany which treats of orchids. - DISCONTENT
Not content; discontented; dissatisfied. Jer. Taylor. Passion seemed to be much discontent, but Patience was very quiet. Bunyan. - PETTYWHIN
The needle furze. See under Needle. - ORCHIDOLOGIST
One versed in orchidology.