grievance

Other forms of grievance

plural

grievances·

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 grievance

What does grievance mean?

grievance means "a resentment strong enough to justify retaliation". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in grievance?

grievance has 2 syllables: grie-vance. The stress falls on "grie". In IPA it is /ˈɡɹivəns/.

What is another word for grievance?

Close synonyms include grudge, score. 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 grievance a common word?

grievance is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.