Synonyms and Antonyms of complaint
1
an expression of dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment
- a warning that if there were any more complaints, we were turning around and not going to the beach after all
beef, bitch, bleat, carp, fuss, grievance, gripe, grouch, grouse, grumble, holler, kvetch, lament, miserere, moan, murmur, plaint, squawk, wail, whimper, whine, whinge [British], yammer
2
a feeling or declaration of disapproval or dissent
- the condo development proceeded despite the complaints of the neighborhood residents
challenge, demur, demurral, demurrer, difficulty, exception, expostulation, fuss, kick, objection, protest, question, remonstrance, stink
compunction, doubt, misgiving, qualm, scruple
misunderstanding
cavil, niggle [chiefly British], quibble
argument, conflict, debate, dispute, dissent, hassle, quarrel, squabble, static
censure, criticism
defiance, disobedience, rebellion
distrust, distrustfulness, dubiety, dubitation [archaic], incertitude, indetermination, misdoubt, mistrust, mistrustfulness, reservation, skepticism, suspicion, uncertainty
qualmishness, unease, uneasiness
reluctance, unwillingness
3
a formal claim of criminal wrongdoing against a person
- filed a complaint in court
accusation, allegation, plea
crimination
counteraccusation, countercharge
arraignment, impeachment
implication, imputation, innuendo, insinuation
censure, condemnation, denunciation
incrimination, recrimination
4
an abnormal state that disrupts a plant's or animal's normal bodily functioning
- takes a slew of medicines for his many complaints
affection, ail, ailment, bug, complication, condition, disease, disorder, distemper, distemperature, fever, ill, illness, infirmity, malady, sickness, trouble
contagion, contagious disease
contagium, infection
attack, bout, fit, spell
debility, decrepitude, feebleness, frailness, lameness, sickliness, unhealthiness,
