complaint - Similar and Opposite Words

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Noun

(criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense

Synonyms

• charge
• complaint

More generic

• pleading

More specific

• accusal
• accusation

Related

• bill of indictment
• indictment

Noun

(civil law) the first pleading of the plaintiff setting out the facts on which the claim for relief is based

Synonyms

• complaint

More generic

• pleading

More specific

• libel

Noun

an expression of grievance or resentment

Synonyms

• complaint

More generic

• objection

More specific

• grievance
• grumble
• grumbling
• jeremiad
• kvetch
• murmur
• murmuring
• mutter
• muttering
• pet peeve
• whimper
• whine

Noun

(formerly) a loud cry (or repeated cries) of pain or rage or sorrow

Synonyms

• complaint

More generic

• cry
• yell

More specific

• exclamation
• lament
• lamentation
• plaint
• wail

Noun

an often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining

Synonyms

• ailment
• complaint
• ill

More generic

• disorder
• upset

More specific

• kinetosis
• motion sickness
• pip

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