'Grievance' definitions:
Definition of 'grievance'
(from WordNet)
noun
A resentment strong enough to justify retaliation; "holding a grudge"; "settling a score" [syn: grudge, score, grievance]
noun
An allegation that something imposes an illegal obligation or denies some legal right or causes injustice
noun
A complaint about a (real or imaginary) wrong that causes resentment and is grounds for action
Definition of 'Grievance'
From: GCIDE
- Grievance \Griev"ance\, n. [OF. grevance. See Grieve, v. t.]
- 1. A cause of uneasiness and complaint; a wrong done and suffered; that which gives ground for remonstrance or resistance, as arising from injustice, tyranny, etc.; injury. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Grieving; grief; affliction. [1913 Webster]
- The . . . grievance of a mind unreasonably yoked. --Milton.
- Syn: Burden; oppression; hardship; trouble. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'grievance'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abomination,
- affliction,
- affront,
- allegation,
- atrocity,
- bad,
- bane,
- beef,
- beefing,
- befoulment,
- bellyache,
- bellyaching,
- bitch,
- bitching,
- bitter cup,
- bitter draft,
- bitter draught,
- bitter pill,
- blight,
- bone to pick,
- boycott,
- bugbear,
- burden,
- burden of care,
- calamity,
- cankerworm of care,
- care,
- challenge,
- charge,
- complaining,
- complaint,
- compunction,
- corruption,
- cross,
- crow to pluck,
- crown of thorns,
- crushing burden,
- crying evil,
- curse,
- damage,
- death,
- defilement,
- demonstration,
- demur,
- demurrer,
- despoliation,
- destruction,
- destructive criticism,
- detriment,
- disease,
- dissent,
- disservice,
- distress,
- encumbrance,
- evil,
- exception,
- expostulation,
- faultfinding,
- gall,
- gall and wormwood,
- great wrong,
- grievance committee,
- gripe,
- griping,
- groan,
- groaning,
- gross injustice,
- grouse,
- grousing,
- grudge,
- grumbling,
- hardship,
- harm,
- havoc,
- holler,
- howl,
- hurt,
- ill,
- imposition,
- indignation meeting,
- indignity,
- infection,
- infliction,
- injury,
- injustice,
- kick,
- kicking,
- load,
- march,
- miscarriage of justice,
- mischief,
- murmuring,
- nemesis,
- nonviolent protest,
- objection,
- open wound,
- oppression,
- outrage,
- pack of troubles,
- peck of troubles,
- peeve,
- peevishness,
- pest,
- pestilence,
- pet peeve,
- petulance,
- picketing,
- plague,
- plaint,
- poison,
- pollution,
- protest,
- protest demonstration,
- protestation,
- qualm,
- querulousness,
- rally,
- raw deal,
- remonstrance,
- remonstration,
- rigor,
- running sore,
- scolding,
- scourge,
- scruple,
- sea of troubles,
- sit-in,
- sniping,
- sorrow,
- squawk,
- squawking,
- strike,
- teach-in,
- the worst,
- thorn,
- torment,
- toxin,
- trial,
- tribulation,
- trouble,
- unfairness,
- venom,
- vexation,
- visitation,
- waters of bitterness,
- weight,
- whining,
- woe,
- wrong,
- yapping