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Synonyms & Antonyms of wailing
(Entry 1 of 2)
- a wailing quality in her voice that makes her a natural for country music
Synonyms for wailing
Words Related to wailing
- dirgelike,
- elegiac
- (also elegiacal),
- melancholy
- dejected,
- depressed,
- despondent,
- disconsolate,
- dispirited,
- downcast,
- downhearted,
- heartsick,
- heartsore,
- inconsolable,
- tearful
Near Antonyms for wailing
- ecstatic,
- elated,
- euphoric,
- exhilarated,
- giddy,
- heady,
- rapturous,
- rhapsodic
- (also rhapsodical)
wailing
verbSynonyms & Antonyms of wailing (Entry 2 of 2)
- the state's residents are always wailing about their high taxes
Synonyms for wailing
- beefing,
- bellyaching,
- bitching,
- bleating,
- carping,
- caterwauling,
- complaining,
- crabbing,
- croaking,
- fussing,
- griping,
- grizzling,
- grouching,
- grousing,
- growling,
- grumbling,
- grumping,
- hollering,
- inveighing,
- keening,
- kicking,
- kvetching,
- maundering
- [chiefly British],
- moaning,
- murmuring,
- muttering,
- nagging,
- repining,
- screaming,
- squawking,
- squealing,
- whimpering,
- whinging
- (or whingeing)
- [British],
- whining,
- yammering,
- yawping
- (or yauping),
- yowling
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Phrases Synonymous with wailing
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Antonyms for wailing
- the women stood beside the coffins, wailing for their fallen sons and daughters
Synonyms for wailing
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- the patient lay in her bed, occasionally softly wailing in pain
Synonyms for wailing
Words Related to wailing
- sniffing,
- sniveling
- (or snivelling),
- whimpering,
- whining
Near Antonyms for wailing
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