Synonyms of groaning

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adjective

as in crying

Related Words

• crying
• moaning
• howling
• bawling
• unhappy
• suffering
• bleeding
• sad
• woebegone
• crestfallen
• keening
• yammering
• gloomy
• forlorn
• careworn
• miserable
• glum
• brokenhearted
• disconsolate
• tearful
• dejected
• downcast
• inconsolable
• dispirited
• piteous
• low-spirited
• despondent
• depressed
• heartsick
• wailing
• morbid
• sullen
• joyless
• cheerless
• morose
• gray
• dismal
• weeping
• aching
• somber
• pathetic
• darkening
• moody
• triste
• bleak
• desolate
• anguished
• funereal
• pessimistic
• dreary
• comfortless
• black
• saturnine
• dark
• melancholy
• downhearted
• agonized
• wretched
• heartsore
• plaintive
• mournful
• sorrowful
• elegiac
• doleful
• lamentable
• lugubrious
• dolorous
• woeful
• grieving
• regretful
• rueful
• low
• heartbroken
• sorry
• bewailing
• bemoaning
• plangent
• funeral
• dirgelike
• bitter
• deploring
• dolesome

Dissimilar Words

• happy
• triumphant
• joyful
• laughing
• delighted
• smiling
• cheerful
• rejoicing
• cheery
• bright
• exulting
• joyous
• glorying
• merry
• cheering
• blissful
• jolly
• encouraging
• buoyant
• mirthful
• blithe
• hopeful
• optimistic
• lighthearted
• giddy
• ecstatic
• rapturous
• euphoric
• blithesome
• rhapsodic
• heady
• jocund
• elated
• exhilarated

groaning

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verb

present participle of groan

as in moaning

to utter a moan

heard someone groaning in pain

Synonyms & Similar Words

• moaning
• sobbing
• crying
• weeping
• wailing
• whimpering
• whining
• shrieking
• sniffing
• blubbering
• bewailing
• sniveling
• lamenting
• howling
• grieving
• bemoaning
• yelping
• sorrowing
• keening
• deploring
• mourning
• hurting
• bleeding
• suffering
• bawling
• squalling
• yammering
• ruing
• agonizing
• yowling
• anguishing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• laughing
• giggling
• chuckling
• snickering
• cackling
• twittering
• chortling
• guffawing
• cracking up
• tittering

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of groaning

Verb

Soon Massachusetts society was groaning under the burden of these hordes of foreign freeloaders. — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 7 July 2026

Despite the lack of goals, the game was exciting with end-to-end runs and missed chances that left fans of both teams groaning and burying their heads in their hands. — Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 1 July 2026

As though on cue, Wardrobe — my beloved, and giant, closet — shuffles over from the corner of my room, the mahogany wood groaning with the effort. — Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 25 June 2026

Growing up, family dinners were large, the table groaning with food. — Georgina Hayden, Bon Appetit Magazine, 15 June 2026

Hager yelled as the show's producers could be heard clapping and groaning in the background. — Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 5 June 2026

And knitting meant clumsily looping a strand of acrylic yarn onto the tip of a bamboo needle, groaning, then handing the project to my mother for help. — Literary Hub, 14 Apr. 2026

No amount of jazz playlists can stop him from glancing at his GPS, groaning as the ETA keeps getting pushed back. — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Mar. 2026

Or get ready for a lot of groaning and whining. — Keely Doll, Louisville Courier Journal, 25 Mar. 2026