Synonyms of moaning

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adjective

as in crying

Synonyms & Similar Words

• crying
• howling
• groaning
• unhappy
• sad
• bawling
• bleeding
• keening
• yammering
• suffering
• gloomy
• crestfallen
• miserable
• woebegone
• forlorn
• glum
• careworn
• brokenhearted
• disconsolate
• tearful
• inconsolable
• low-spirited
• dejected
• despondent
• depressed
• dispirited
• downcast
• piteous
• wailing
• grey
• morbid
• heartsick
• sullen
• sombre
• morose
• gray
• moody
• pathetic
• cheerless
• joyless
• pessimistic
• black
• weeping
• triste
• dismal
• somber
• bleak
• aching
• darkening
• funereal
• anguished
• downhearted
• dreary
• desolate
• dark
• comfortless
• saturnine
• melancholy
• plaintive
• heartsore
• elegiac
• agonized
• mournful
• wretched
• sorrowful
• doleful
• dolorous
• lamentable
• lugubrious
• grieving
• regretful
• woeful
• heartbroken
• low
• sorry
• funeral
• elegiacal
• rueful
• bemoaning
• dirgelike
• plangent
• bitter
• bewailing
• deploring
• dolesome

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• happy
• joyful
• triumphant
• laughing
• smiling
• delighted
• cheerful
• cheery
• rejoicing
• bright
• exulting
• merry
• joyous
• glorying
• cheering
• blissful
• jolly
• encouraging
• buoyant
• blithe
• optimistic
• mirthful
• hopeful
• lighthearted
• ecstatic
• giddy
• rapturous
• euphoric
• rhapsodic
• blithesome
• jocund
• heady
• rhapsodical
• elated
• exhilarated

moaning

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verb

present participle of moan

1

as in groaning

to utter a moan

he moaned and cried for days after his dog, his only companion, died

Synonyms & Similar Words

• groaning
• sobbing
• crying
• weeping
• wailing
• whimpering
• whining
• shrieking
• sniffing
• blubbering
• sniveling
• snivelling
• bewailing
• lamenting
• howling
• yelping
• grieving
• bemoaning
• keening
• deploring
• sorrowing
• mourning
• hurting
• bleeding
• squalling
• bawling
• suffering
• yammering
• ruing
• yowling
• agonizing
• anguishing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• laughing
• giggling
• chuckling
• snickering
• cackling
• twittering
• chortling
• cracking up
• guffawing
• tittering

2

as in complaining

to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely

their son moaned whenever anyone asked him to do some work

Synonyms & Similar Words

• complaining
• screaming
• whining
• muttering
• whimpering
• grumbling
• bitching
• growling
• squealing
• whingeing
• murmuring
• crying
• worrying
• wailing
• squawking
• kicking
• whinging
• griping
• yammering
• bellyaching
• hollering
• grousing
• grouching
• caterwauling
• grizzling
• bleating
• kvetching
• keening
• grumping
• nagging
• carping
• yawping
• yowling
• repining
• inveighing
• beefing
• kicking up a fuss
• protesting
• croaking
• crabbing
• fussing
• maundering
• sobbing
• kicking up a stink
• yauping
• quarrelling (with)
• cavilling
• quarreling (with)
• quibbling
• objecting (to)
• blubbering
• stewing
• lamenting
• caviling
• fretting
• bewailing
• bemoaning
• deploring

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• rejoicing
• delighting
• accepting
• taking
• enduring
• crowing
• tolerating
• bearing
• cheering
• applauding
• commending
• countenancing