complain
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness
My mother complains all day
Types & categories
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Sense 2 verb
make a formal accusation; bring a formal charge
The plaintiff's lawyer complained that he defendant had physically abused his client
Types & categories
- charge hypernym
Related & opposite
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | antonym | Related & opposite | chirk up |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | complaint |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | gripe |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | squawker |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | nag |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | backbite |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | grizzle |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | murmur |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | grumble |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | protest |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | repine |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | bitch |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | rail |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | bewail |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | report |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | bleat |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | charge |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | complaint |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | plaintiff |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | charge |