complaint

complaint is a 9-letter English word with 9 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Expression of grief, regret, pain, censure, or resentment; lamentation; murmuring; accusation; fault-finding. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 20 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Expression of grief, regret, pain, censure, or resentment; lamentation; murmuring; accusation; fault-finding.
2. noun. Cause or subject of complaint or murmuring.
3. noun. An ailment or disease of the body.
4. noun. 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.
5. noun. (criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense

   "he was arrested on a charge of larceny"

   Synonyms: charge

6. noun. (civil law) the first pleading of the plaintiff setting out the facts on which the claim for relief is based
7. noun. an expression of grievance or resentment
8. noun. (formerly) a loud cry (or repeated cries) of pain or rage or sorrow
9. noun. an often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining

   Synonyms: ailment, ill

Synonyms

charge, ailment, ill

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in complaint:

compliant

Common word forms

complaints, complaintful

Words from these letters

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