complaining
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
complaining
- present participle and gerund of complain
- Synonym: (now rare) latrant
Noun[edit]
complaining (plural complainings)
- The act by which someone complains; a complaint.
- 1863, Dinah Maria Craik, Mistress and maid:
- Elizabeth […] wished he were beside her, and was so glad to think he would soon be beside her always, with all his humours and weaknesses, all his little crossnesses and complainings […]
Translations[edit]
the act by which someone complains
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