Synonyms for whine
ʰwaɪn, waɪnwhine

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1. whimper, whineverb

   a complaint uttered in a plaintive whining way

   Synonyms:
   whimper

2. whineverb

   move with a whining sound

   "The bullets were whining past us"

   Synonyms:
   yawp, skreak, snivel, creak, yammer, screech, squeak, grizzle, screak

3. snivel, whineverb

   talk in a tearful manner

   Synonyms:
   grizzle, yawp, sniffle, skreak, snivel, creak, squeak, screech, blubber, screak, yammer, blub, snuffle

4. whine, squeak, screech, creak, screak, skreakverb

   make a high-pitched, screeching noise

   "The door creaked when I opened it slowly"; "My car engine makes a whining noise"

   Synonyms:
   yawp, skreak, snivel, squawk, creak, yammer, screech, squeak, grizzle, screak, skreigh

5. whine, grizzle, yammer, yawpverb

   complain whiningly

   Synonyms:
   stew, howl, yawp, skreak, snivel, yowl, creak, yammer, bawl, screech, brood, squeak, grizzle, wrawl, screak

Matched Categories

1. • Make Noise
   • Move
   • Talk

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1. whineverb

   Synonyms:
   cry (plaintively), moan (in a childish way)

2. whinenoun

   Synonyms:
   plaintive tone

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:2.5 / 2 votes

1. whinenoun

   Synonyms:
   whimper, puling, complaint

2. whineverb

   Synonyms:
   whimper, pule, complain

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1. List of paraphrases for "whine":

   mourn

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How to use whine in a sentence?

1. James Abbott McNeill Whistler:

   Two and two continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the ameteur for three, or the cry of the critc for five. (from Whistler vs. Ruskin, 1878)

2. AiR Atman in Ravi:

   You can be happy all the time, If you learn to smile and not whine, Not jumping from the future to the past, Be in the NOW and make happiness last.

3. Joan Didion:

   When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it, but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, then is when we join the fashionable madmen, and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land, and then is when we are in bad trouble.

4. James McNeill Whistler:

   Two and two continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five.

5. Thomas Tusser:

   For the first fourteen years for a rod they do whine, For the next as a pearl in the world they do shine, For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve, For the next matrons or drudges they serve, For the next doth crave a staff for a stay, For the next a bier to fetch them away.