Entry Word: grouch

Function: noun

Meaning: an irritable and complaining person <an uncle who is a real grouch when he's sick>

Synonyms bear, complainer, crab, crank, croaker, curmudgeon, fusser, griper, grouser, growler, grumbler, grump, murmurer, mutterer, whiner

Related Words fulminator, malcontent, sorehead; killjoy, party pooper, spoilsport; defeatist, pessimist; faultfinder, kicker, nagger, nitpicker, quibbler

Near Antonyms optimist; rejoicer