complainant

1. 1.

   a person who brings an action in a court of law

   Synonymsplaintiff

   Broaderlitigant

   Narrowersuer

   law

Other forms of complainant

plural

complainants·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about complainant

What does complainant mean?

complainant means "a person who brings an action in a court of law".

How many syllables are in complainant?

complainant has 3 syllables: com-plai-nant. The stress falls on "plai". In IPA it is /kəmˈpleɪnənt/.

What is another word for complainant?

Close synonyms include plaintiff. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is complainant a common word?

complainant is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.