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

Meaning:

A person given to excessive complaints and crying and whining

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

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

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)

Derivation:

complain (express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness)

 Context examples 

Everybody had a part either too long or too short; nobody would attend as they ought; nobody would remember on which side they were to come in; nobody but the complainer would observe any directions.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)