whine

1. 1.

   a complaint uttered in a plaintive whining way

   Synonymswhimper

   Broadercomplaint

Other forms of whine

plural

whines·

past tense

whined·

present participle

whining·

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 whine

What does whine mean?

whine means "move with a whining sound". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in whine?

whine has 1 syllable: whine. In IPA it is /ˈwaɪn/.

What is another word for whine?

Close synonyms include snivel, squeak, screech, creak, screak. 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 whine a common word?

whine 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.

What rhymes with whine?

1 word rhymes with whine. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.