Complaint

Noun

 * 1)  In a civil action, the first pleading of the plaintiff setting out the facts on which the claim is based; The purpose is to give notice to the adversary of the nature and basis of the claim asserted.
 * 2)  In criminal law, the preliminary charge or accusation made by one person against another to the appropriate court or officer, usually a magistrate.
 * 3) a grievance, problem, difficulty, or concern; the act of complaining
 * 4) a bodily disorder or disease; the symptom of such a disorder

Adjectives for Complaint
infantile; troublesome; vehement; loud private; belated; frequent (pi); timid alarming;  mournful;  loathsome;  rash angry; incipient; constant; fatal; unjust prevalent;  ignorant;  fond;  quavering pathetic;  distressing;  formal;   jealous frivolous; dysenteric; pulmonary; vexatious unintelligible; irritating; wailing; individual; public; chronic; paternal; vigorous; hoarse; well-founded; well-formed; pleas¬ant; bitter; doleful; defensive; frenetic praiseful; threnodic.

Verbs for Complaint
amend—; burden with—; complicate—; contract—; develop—; dismiss—; ease—; investigate—; issue—; lodge—against; mourn—; murmur—; pour out—; propogate—; renew—; rid oneself of—; set forth—; suffer—; swallow—; terminate—; usher in—; utter—; whisper—; withdraw ;—; —irritates; — rain in; —recurs; —saddens; —wanes; —waxes.

Thesaurus
accusation, accusing, acute disease, affection, affidavit, affliction, ailment, allegation, allegement, allergic disease, allergy, arraignment, atrophy, bacterial disease, ban, beef, beefing, bellyache, bellyaching, bill, bill of complaint, bill of particulars, birth defect, bitch, bitching, blackball, blackballing, blame, blight, boycott, bringing of charges, bringing to book, cardiovascular disease, challenge, charge, chronic disease, circulatory disease, claim, combative reaction, complaining, complication, compunction, condition, congenital defect, count, counteraction, declaration, defect, defiance, deficiency disease, deformity, degenerative disease, delation, demonstration, demur, demurrer, denouncement, denunciation, deposition, destructive criticism, dim view, disability, disagreement, disappointment, disapprobation, disapproval, discontent, discontentedness, discontentment, disease, disenchantment, disesteem, disfavor, disgruntlement, disillusion, disillusionment, disorder, displeasure, dispute, disrespect, dissatisfaction, dissent, dissentience, distaste, distemper, endemic, endemic disease, endocrine disease, epidemic disease, exception, exclusion, expostulation, faultfinding, fractiousness, functional disease, fungus disease, gastrointestinal disease, genetic disease, grievance, grievance committee, gripe, griping, groan, groaning, grouse, grousing, grumble, grumbling, handicap, hereditary disease, holler, howl, iatrogenic disease, ill, illness, impeachment, implication, imputation, indictment, indignation, indignation meeting, indisposition, infectious disease, infirmity, information, innuendo, insinuation, kick, kicking, lawsuit, laying of charges, libel, low estimation, low opinion, malady, malaise, march, morbidity, morbus, murmuring, muscular disease, narratio, negativism, neurological disease, nolle prosequi, noncooperation, nonsuit, nonviolent protest, nutritional disease, objection, obstinacy, occupational disease, opposition, opposure, organic disease, ostracism, pandemic disease, passive resistance, pathological condition, pathology, peeve, peevishness, pet peeve, petulance, picketing, plaint, plant disease, prosecution, protest, protest demonstration, protestation, protozoan disease, psychosomatic disease, qualm, querulousness, rally, reaction, rebuff, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, recalcitration, refractoriness, rejection, reluctance, remonstrance, remonstration, renitence, renitency, repellence, repellency, reproach, repulse, repulsion, resistance, respiratory disease, revolt, rockiness, scolding, scruple, secondary disease, seediness, sickishness, sickness, signs, sit-in, sniping, squawk, squawking, stand, statement, statement of facts, strike, suit, symptomatology, symptomology, symptoms, syndrome, taxing, teach-in, the pip, thumbs-down, true bill, uncooperativeness, unhappiness, unspoken accusation, urogenital disease, veiled accusation, virus disease, wasting disease, whining, withstanding,

Etymology
compleynte < compleint, from compleindre.

Translations

 * Dutch: proces-verbaal


 * Russian: иск


 * Bulgarian: оплакване, недоволство
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 怨言
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:, beklag, grieven
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: valitus, reklamaatio, kantelu
 * French: plainte
 * German:, , , , ,
 * Greek: (parápono)
 * Hindi: शिकायत
 * Hungarian:


 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 不平, 不満, 文句
 * Kurdish: gazin, gilî , rexne , şikayet ,
 * Norwegian: klage, innvending
 * Polish: skarga
 * Russian: жалоба, недовольство, нарекание
 * Scottish Gaelic: coire
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Urdu: شکایت


 * Bulgarian:, болка
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 怨言
 * Czech: nemoc, příznak nemoci, symptom
 * Dutch:


 * Finnish:
 * German:, ,
 * Italian:
 * Russian: недомогание, недуг
 * Swahili:

Anagrams

 * compliant