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

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

Three other men appeared to be detained as Salgado Araujo lay moaning on the ground, according to his son, who said one of them was his uncle and that no one has heard from them since. — ABC News, 8 July 2026

The process left Carruthers bleeding and moaning on May 21, according to the witness, Maria DeLiberato, senior counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union's Capital Punishment Project. — Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 28 May 2026

The stuff with a load of people wearing wigs moaning about taxes just isn’t seen as very glamorous. — Sean Woods, Rolling Stone, 25 May 2026