complaint

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: com=plaint
• COUNT in NET: 16 in 16 verses (in OT : 12 in 12 verses) (in NT : 4 in 4 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

complaint, n. [F. complainte. See Complain.].

•  Expression of grief, regret, pain, censure, or resentment; lamentation; murmuring; accusation; fault-finding.  [1913 Webster]

  "I poured out my complaint before him."  [1913 Webster]

  "Grievous complaints of you."  [1913 Webster]
•  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."  [1913 Webster]
•  An ailment or disease of the body.  [1913 Webster]

  "One in a complaint of his bowels."  [1913 Webster]
•  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.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

complaint, n.
1 an act of complaining.
2 a grievance.
3 an ailment or illness.
4 US Law the plaintiff's case in a civil action.

Etymology

ME f. OF complainte f. complaint past part. of complaindre: see COMPLAIN

THESAURUS

complaint

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

ROGET THESAURUS

complaint

Disease

N disease, illness, sickness, ailing, all the ills that flesh is heir to, morbidity, morbosity, infirmity, ailment, indisposition, complaint, disorder, malady, distemper, distemperature, visitation, attack, seizure, stroke, fit, delicacy, loss of health, invalidation, cachexy, cachexia, atrophy, marasmus, indigestion, dyspepsia, decay, decline, consumption, palsy, paralysis, prostration, taint, pollution, infection, sepsis, septicity, infestation, epidemic, pandemic, endemic, epizootic, murrain, plague, pestilence, pox, sore, ulcer, abscess, fester, boil, pimple, wen, carbuncle, gathering, imposthume, peccant humor, issue, rot, canker, cold sore, fever sore, cancer, carcinoma, leukemia, neoplastic disease, malignancy, tumor, caries, mortification, corruption, gangrene, sphacelus, sphacelation, leprosy, eruption, rash, breaking out, fever, temperature, calenture, inflammation, ague, angina pectoris, appendicitis, Asiatic cholera, spasmodic cholera, biliary calculus, kidney stone, black death, bubonic plague, pneumonic plague, blennorrhagia, blennorrhoea, blood poisoning, bloodstroke, bloody flux, brash, breakbone fever, dengue fever, malarial fever, Q-fever, heart attack, cardiac arrest, cardiomyopathy, hardening of the arteries, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis, bronchocele, canker rash, cardialgia, carditis, endocarditis, cholera, asphyxia, chlorosis, chorea, cynanche, dartre, enanthem, enanthema, erysipelas, exanthem, exanthema, gallstone, goiter, gonorrhea, green sickness, grip, grippe, influenza, flu, hay fever, heartburn, heaves, rupture, hernia, hemorrhoids, piles, herpes, itch, king's evil, lockjaw, measles, mumps, polio, necrosis, pertussis, phthisis, pneumonia, psora, pyaemia, pyrosis, quinsy, rachitis, ringworm, rubeola, St. Vitus's dance, scabies, scarlatina, scarlet fever, scrofula, seasickness, struma, syntexis, tetanus, tetter, tonsillitis, tonsilitis, tracheocele, trachoma, trismus, varicella, varicosis, variola, water qualm, whooping cough, yellow fever, yellow jack, fatal disease, dangerous illness, galloping consumption, churchyard cough, general breaking up, break up of the system, idiocy insanity, martyr to disease, cripple, the halt the lame and the blind, valetudinary, valetudinarian, invalid, patient, case, sickroom, sick- chamber, pathology, etiology, nosology, anthrax, bighead, blackleg, blackquarter, cattle plague, glanders, mange, scrapie, milk sickness, heartworm, feline leukemia, roundworms, quarter-evil, quarter-ill, rinderpest, virus, bacterium, bacteria, DNA virus, RNA virus, rhinovirus, rhabdovirus, picornavirus, herpesvirus, cytomegalovirus, CMV, human immunodefficiency virus, HIV, diseased, ailing, ill, ill of, taken ill, seized with, indisposed, unwell, sick, squeamish, poorly, seedy, affected with illness, afflicted with illness, laid up, confined, bedridden, invalided, in hospital, on the sick list, out of health, out of sorts, under the weather, valetudinary, unsound, unhealthy, sickly, morbid, morbose, healthless, infirm, chlorotic, unbraced, drooping, flagging, lame, crippled, halting, morbid, tainted, vitiated, peccant, contaminated, poisoned, tabid, mangy, leprous, cankered, rotten, rotten to the core, rotten at the core, withered, palsied, paralytic, dyspeptic, luetic, pneumonic, pulmonic, phthisic, rachitic, syntectic, syntectical, tabetic, varicose, touched in the wind, broken-winded, spavined, gasping, hors de combat, weakly, weakened, decrepit, decayed, incurable, in declining health, cranky, in a bad way, in danger, prostrate, moribund, morbific epidemic, endemic, zymotic.

Lamentation

N lament, lamentation, wail, complaint, plaint, murmur, mutter, grumble, groan, moan, whine, whimper, sob, sigh, suspiration, heaving, deep sigh, cry, scream, howl, outcry, wail of woe, ululation, frown, scowl, tear, weeping, flood of tears, fit of crying, lacrimation, lachrymation, melting mood, weeping and gnashing of teeth, plaintiveness, languishment, condolence, mourning, weeds, willow, cypress, crape, deep mourning, sackcloth and ashes, lachrymatory, knell, deep death song, dirge, coronach, nenia, requiem, elegy, epicedium, threne, monody, threnody, jeremiad, jeremiade, ullalulla, mourner, grumbler, Noobe, Heraclitus, lamenting, in mourning, in sackcloth and ashes, sorrowing, sorrowful, mournful, tearful, lachrymose, plaintive, plaintful, querulous, querimonious, in the melting mood, threnetic, in tears, with tears in one's eyes, with moistened eyes, with watery eyes, bathed in tears, dissolved in tears, like Niobe all tears, elegiac, epicedial, de profundis, les larmes aux yeux, Int, heigh-ho!, alas!, alack!, O dear!, ah me!, woe is me!, lackadaisy!, well a day!, lack a day!, alack a day!, wellaway!, alas the day!, O tempora O mores!, what a pity!, miserabile dictu!, O lud lud!, too true!, tears standing in the eyes, tears starting from the eyes, eyes suffused, eyes swimming, eyes brimming, eyes overflowing with tears, if you have tears prepare to shed them now, interdum lacrymae pondera vocis habent, strangled his language in his tears, tears such as angels weep.