Synonyms of yammering

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adjective

as in crying

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

yammering

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noun

1

as in whining

Synonyms & Similar Words

• crying
• whining
• weeping
• whimpering
• sobbing
• blubbering
• sniveling
• wail
• groan
• moan
• lamentation
• whine
• keen
• shriek
• lament
• plaint
• bawl
• yowl
• yelp
• whimper
• howl
• squall
• cry

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• chuckle
• laugh
• giggle
• cackle
• snicker
• guffaw
• titter
• twitter
• chortle
• snigger

2

as in prattle

Synonyms & Similar Words

• prattle
• babble
• prating
• jawing
• chatter
• gabble
• jabber
• blab
• patter
• gibberish
• gibber
• drivel
• swagger
• verbosity
• egotism
• vaunt
• bloviation
• self-importance
• windiness
• rhetoric
• turgidity
• pomposity
• rhapsody
• self-conceit
• wind
• rant
• oratory
• braggadocio
• bombast
• rodomontade
• rhodomontade
• magniloquence
• bluster
• hot air
• grandiloquence
• brag
• gasconade
• bull
• fanfaronade
• gas
• cockalorum

yammering

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verb

present participle of yammer

as in complaining

to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely

customers yammered on for what seemed like days about the billing mistake

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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