Synonyms of moaning

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adjective

as in crying

Related Words

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

Dissimilar Words

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

moaning

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verb

present participle of moan

1

as in groaning

to utter a moan

he moaned and cried for days after his dog, his only companion, died

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

2

as in complaining

to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely

their son moaned whenever anyone asked him to do some work

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of moaning

Verb

It's been a big few months for Austin Abrams moaning and groaning his way through some of the worst situations imaginable. — Megan McCluskey, Time, 16 Oct. 2026

For a cold moment the silence locked a grip on our table, though it was broken, at the edges, by the golf commentators moaning and harrumphing, Rory McIlroy having had a canary on a seventeenth fairway somewhere this championship Sunday. — Kevin Barry, New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2026

By the time Fowler gave up trying to put one in Carruthers, DiLiberato could hear her client moaning and see blood oozing out of his puncture wounds. — Keri Blakinger, ProPublica, 6 Oct. 2026

At the same time, Plog placed a phone call to a relative and can be heard moaning and screaming in pain. — Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 18 Sep. 2026

Hall wrote in his report that Hamilton lay down in the backseat of the police vehicle, moaning and not responding, prompting first responders to give him Narcan. — Arkansas Online, 14 Aug. 2026

Video released by the Milwaukie Police Department shows Descamps sprawled in a hospital bed, his body limp, moaning and drooling, while medical staff stood nearby. — Brian Mann, NPR, 6 Aug. 2026

Swinging his hips, moaning into the mic and briefly getting promiscuous with a mic stand was the authenticity that the majority-millennial crowd expected. — Sophie Lindberg july 11, Kansas City Star, 12 July 2026

Federal officers stand over a man with a bloody shirt who is handcuffed face down, moaning in pain as his left foot shakes. — Andrea Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2026