Antonyms for grunt
grʌntgrunt

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.4 / 5 votes

1. grunt

   To complain is to give utterance to dissatisfaction or objection, express a sense of wrong or ill treatment. One complains of a real or assumed grievance; he may murmur through mere peevishness or ill temper; he repines, with vain distress, at the irrevocable or the inevitable. Complaining is by speech or writing; murmuring is commonly said of half-repressed utterance; repining of the mental act alone. One may complain of an offense to the offender or to others; he remonstrates with the offender only. Complain has a formal and legal meaning, which the other words have not, signifying to make a formal accusation, present a specific charge; the same is true of the noun complaint.

   Antonyms:
   applaud, approve, commend, eulogize, laud, praise

   Synonyms:
   complain, croak, find fault, growl, grumble, murmur, remonstrate, repine

   Preposition:
   Complain of a thing to a person; of one person to another, of or against a person for an act; to an officer; before the court; about a thing.

Matched Categories

1. • Unskilled Person
   • Utter

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. grunt, oinknoun

   the short low gruff noise of the kind made by hogs

   Synonyms:
   oink

2. gruntnoun

   an unskilled or low-ranking soldier or other worker

   "infantrymen in Vietnam were called grunts"; "he went from grunt to chairman in six years"

   Synonyms:
   oink

3. gruntverb

   medium-sized tropical marine food fishes that utter grunting sounds when caught

   Synonyms:
   oink

4. gruntverb

   issue a grunting, low, animal-like noise

   "He grunted his reluctant approval"

How to use grunt in a sentence?

1. Wesfarmers Managing Director Richard Goyder:

   It's not without risk, (But) we'll put the grunt of Wesfarmers behind it.

2. Katie Slocombe:

   Our study is the first one to show that chimps do have some control over the structure of these food grunts, when exposed to a different social culture, they can choose to shift the structure of their calls to conform and give a different grunt.

3. William Osler:

   Look wise say nothing and grunt, speech was given to conceal thought.

4. Stephen Butler Leacock:

   The mayor gave no other answer than that deep guttural grunt which is technically known in municipal interviews as refusing to commit oneself.

5. Rachel Bien:

   Many of the most abusive internships involving low-level tasks and grunt-type work are plainly illegal under this standard.

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