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COMPLAINER

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Dictionary entry overview: What does complainer mean?

• COMPLAINER (noun)
The noun COMPLAINER has 1 sense:

1. a person given to excessive complaints and crying and whining

Familiarity information: COMPLAINER used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• COMPLAINER (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A person given to excessive complaints and crying and whining

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

bellyacher; complainer; grumbler; moaner; sniveller; squawker; whiner; crybaby

Hypernyms ("complainer" is a kind of...):

disagreeable person; unpleasant person (a person who is not pleasant or agreeable)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "complainer"):

kvetch ((Yiddish) a constant complainer)

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