moaner

Other forms of moaner

plural

moaners·

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 moaner

What does moaner mean?

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

How many syllables are in moaner?

moaner has 3 syllables: mo-a-ner. The stress falls on "mo".

What is another word for moaner?

Close synonyms include whiner, complainer, 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 moaner a common word?

moaner 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.