Synonyms of grousing

grousing

verb

present participle of grouse

as in complaining

to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely

hasn't stopped grousing since we started this vacation

Synonyms & Similar Words

• complaining
• screaming
• whining
• moaning
• muttering
• grumbling
• griping
• bitching
• carping
• worrying
• yammering
• whimpering
• murmuring
• growling
• squawking
• hollering
• bellyaching
• nagging
• squealing
• kicking
• crying
• kvetching
• wailing
• bleating
• grouching
• repining
• beefing
• whinging
• yowling
• inveighing
• caterwauling
• grumping
• keening
• grizzling
• crabbing
• yawping
• fussing
• protesting
• maundering
• croaking
• kicking up a fuss
• sobbing
• quibbling
• quarreling (with)
• fretting
• stewing
• objecting (to)
• lamenting
• caviling
• blubbering
• bemoaning
• bewailing
• deploring

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• rejoicing
• delighting
• accepting
• enduring
• taking
• crowing
• tolerating
• bearing
• cheering
• applauding
• commending
• countenancing

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of grousing

Like families since time immemorial, the Hollingsworths are prone to needling each other about their love lives or grousing about their parents. — Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 21 Sep. 2026

These are songs meant to be played live in the club, intended to get kids dancing and adults grousing. — Stephen Deusner, SPIN, 25 Aug. 2026

Like all utilities, ComEd comes in for plenty of grousing as a matter of course, but would anyone in northern Illinois prefer that NIPSCO were their utility these past two weeks? — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 24 Aug. 2026

Complaining about Oracle Park’s cozy 3rd and King streets footprint feels like grousing that Lombard Street has too many turns—that intimate, bayfront setting on McCovey Cove is precisely the point. — James Ward, USA Today, 17 Aug. 2026

For every grousing old-timer who felt that Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman was contaminating the genre came another who expressed sheer joy that such a show even existed. — Literary Hub, 18 May 2026

For all of you grousing that the Broncos could have just drafted a player like Waddle, Payton has not developed his Nik Bonitto on offense as Vance Joseph has on defense. — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 18 Mar. 2026

In the movie’s first dramatic scene, achingly redolent of memory, the brothers—the older is eleven, the younger eight—loll in front of their family’s house, snacking, grousing, playing with paper action figures, trying to fill the solitude and the silence around them with banter and bravado. — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2026

Here, Lee gets at the crux of his self-satire, as well as the grousing anti-capitalism of Kurosawa’s original movie, in which the protagonist has also let business cloud his moral judgment. — David Sims, The Atlantic, 19 Aug. 2025