complainer

Other forms of complainer

plural

complainers·

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 complainer

What does complainer mean?

complainer means "a person given to excessive complaints and crying and whining".

How many syllables are in complainer?

complainer has 3 syllables: com-plai-ner. The stress falls on "plai". In IPA it is /kəmˈpleɪnɚ/.

What is another word for complainer?

Close synonyms include whiner, moaner, sniveller, crybaby, bellyacher. 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 complainer a common word?

complainer is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with complainer?

2 words rhyme with complainer. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.