'Complaint' definitions:
Definition of 'complaint'
(from WordNet)
noun
An often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining [syn: ailment, complaint, ill]
noun
(formerly) a loud cry (or repeated cries) of pain or rage or sorrow
noun
An expression of grievance or resentment
noun
(civil law) the first pleading of the plaintiff setting out the facts on which the claim for relief is based
noun
(criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense; "he was arrested on a charge of larceny" [syn: charge, complaint]
Definition of 'Complaint'
From: GCIDE
- Complaint \Com*plaint"\ (k[o^]m*pl[=a]nt"), n. [F. complainte. See Complain.]
- 1. Expression of grief, regret, pain, censure, or resentment; lamentation; murmuring; accusation; fault-finding. [1913 Webster]
- I poured out my complaint before him. --Ps. cxlii. 2. [1913 Webster]
- Grievous complaints of you. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Cause or subject of complaint or murmuring. [1913 Webster]
- The poverty of the clergy in England hath been the complaint of all who wish well to the church. --Swift. [1913 Webster]
- 3. An ailment or disease of the body. [1913 Webster]
- One in a complaint of his bowels. --Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Law) 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 (in the latter case, generally under oath); an information; accusation; the initial bill in proceedings in equity.
- Syn: Lamentation; murmuring; sorrow; grief; disease; illness; disorder; malady; ailment. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'complaint'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abnormality,
- accusal,
- accusation,
- accusing,
- acute disease,
- affection,
- affidavit,
- affliction,
- ailment,
- allegation,
- allegement,
- allergic disease,
- allergy,
- arraignment,
- atrophy,
- bacterial disease,
- ban,
- beef,
- beefing,
- bellyache,
- bellyaching,
- bill,
- bill of complaint,
- bill of particulars,
- birth defect,
- bitch,
- bitching,
- blackball,
- blackballing,
- blame,
- blight,
- boycott,
- bringing of charges,
- bringing to book,
- cardiovascular disease,
- challenge,
- charge,
- chronic disease,
- circulatory disease,
- claim,
- combative reaction,
- complaining,
- complication,
- compunction,
- condition,
- congenital defect,
- count,
- counteraction,
- declaration,
- defect,
- defiance,
- deficiency disease,
- deformity,
- degenerative disease,
- delation,
- demonstration,
- demur,
- demurrer,
- denouncement,
- denunciation,
- deposition,
- destructive criticism,
- dim view,
- disability,
- disagreement,
- disappointment,
- disapprobation,
- disapproval,
- discontent,
- discontentedness,
- discontentment,
- disease,
- disenchantment,
- disesteem,
- disfavor,
- disgruntlement,
- disillusion,
- disillusionment,
- disorder,
- displeasure,
- dispute,
- disrespect,
- dissatisfaction,
- dissent,
- dissentience,
- distaste,
- distemper,
- endemic,
- endemic disease,
- endocrine disease,
- epidemic disease,
- exception,
- exclusion,
- expostulation,
- faultfinding,
- fractiousness,
- functional disease,
- fungus disease,
- gastrointestinal disease,
- genetic disease,
- grievance,
- grievance committee,
- gripe,
- griping,
- groan,
- groaning,
- grouse,
- grousing,
- grumble,
- grumbling,
- handicap,
- hereditary disease,
- holler,
- howl,
- iatrogenic disease,
- ill,
- illness,
- impeachment,
- implication,
- imputation,
- indictment,
- indignation,
- indignation meeting,
- indisposition,
- infectious disease,
- infirmity,
- information,
- innuendo,
- insinuation,
- kick,
- kicking,
- lawsuit,
- laying of charges,
- libel,
- low estimation,
- low opinion,
- malady,
- malaise,
- march,
- morbidity,
- morbus,
- murmuring,
- muscular disease,
- narratio,
- negativism,
- neurological disease,
- nolle prosequi,
- noncooperation,
- nonsuit,
- nonviolent protest,
- nutritional disease,
- objection,
- obstinacy,
- occupational disease,
- opposition,
- opposure,
- organic disease,
- ostracism,
- pandemic disease,
- passive resistance,
- pathological condition,
- pathology,
- peeve,
- peevishness,
- pet peeve,
- petulance,
- picketing,
- plaint,
- plant disease,
- prosecution,
- protest,
- protest demonstration,
- protestation,
- protozoan disease,
- psychosomatic disease,
- qualm,
- querulousness,
- rally,
- reaction,
- rebuff,
- recalcitrance,
- recalcitrancy,
- recalcitration,
- refractoriness,
- rejection,
- reluctance,
- remonstrance,
- remonstration,
- renitence,
- renitency,
- repellence,
- repellency,
- reproach,
- repulse,
- repulsion,
- resistance,
- respiratory disease,
- revolt,
- rockiness,
- scolding,
- scruple,
- secondary disease,
- seediness,
- sickishness,
- sickness,
- signs,
- sit-in,
- sniping,
- squawk,
- squawking,
- stand,
- statement,
- statement of facts,
- strike,
- suit,
- symptomatology,
- symptomology,
- symptoms,
- syndrome,
- taxing,
- teach-in,
- the pip,
- thumbs-down,
- true bill,
- uncooperativeness,
- unhappiness,
- unspoken accusation,
- urogenital disease,
- veiled accusation,
- virus disease,
- wasting disease,
- whining,
- withstanding,
- worm disease,
- yapping