Synonyms of uncomplaining

uncomplaining

adjective

ˌən-kəm-ˈplā-niŋ 

as in patient

accepting pains or hardships calmly or without complaint

an uncomplaining hardworking single mother of five

Synonyms & Similar Words

• patient
• stoic
• obedient
• passive
• long-suffering
• forbearing
• tolerant
• willing
• obliging
• subordinate
• collected
• acquiescent
• resigned
• docile
• restrained
• composed
• amiable
• submissive
• lenient
• compliant
• tractable
• complying
• conformist
• repressed
• disciplined
• subservient
• placable
• slavish
• yielding
• amenable
• constrained
• agreeable
• uncaring
• law-abiding
• unresistant
• unresponsive
• contained
• apathetic
• inhibited
• curbed
• self-controlled
• self-contained

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• complaining
• impatient
• protesting
• weary
• fed up
• tired
• bored
• defiant
• resistant
• kvetching
• kvetchy
• contrary
• recalcitrant
• intractable
• rebellious
• refractory
• disobedient
• unmanageable
• unruly
• insubordinate
• ungovernable

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of uncomplaining

The story of children financially supporting their immigrant parents can feed into the myth of the Asian American model minority, which, in part, stereotypes Asian Americans as obedient, hard-working and uncomplaining. — Mike Dang, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2023

At 65, the uncomplaining, modestly dressed Hornclaw appears to be a model senior citizen. — Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2022

The sunflower has always been so hardworking, so uncomplaining. — Charlotte Mendelson, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2020

Ivey's Maggie is a pragmatic, uncomplaining woman who makes light of most difficulties, maintaining a cheery attitude — a kind of willful obliviousness — perhaps as a defense mechanism against the inevitable force of crushing reality. — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Dec. 2019

The story is always written as a tearjerker, with praise for the person’s uncomplaining attitude; a car is usually donated to the subject in the end. — Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2017