whiner

noun

Definition of whinernext
1
as in complainer
a person who makes frequent complaints usually about little things don't be a whiner—the hike's not that difficult

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2
as in crab
an irritable and complaining person among the hospital staff the patient in 504 had acquired a reputation for being a whiner

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Recent Examples of whiner There are no bigger whiners in the league than LeBron James, Luka Doncic, Austin Reaves and Deandre Ayton, who have in their minds never committed a foul and are always fouled with no call on any possession. — Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2026 Continue reading … DAVID MARCUS – Patriotic Team USA wins gold as anti-America whiners flop. — FOXNews.com, 24 Feb. 2026 Never mind the man himself, who, anyway, emerges as something of a whiner and malcontent. — Graham Hillard, The Washington Examiner, 31 Oct. 2025 No one likes a draft-day whiner. — Bill Reinhard, New York Daily News, 17 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for whiner
  1. complainer
  2. crab
  3. baby
  4. bear
  5. crybaby
  6. crank
Noun
  • My ‘Deborah Vance Show senior writer’ persona was kind of a rude complainer with an incipient alcohol problem.
    — Merrill Markoe, Deadline, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Are they deluded into thinking that the complainers are just a squeaky wheel minority and the majority of fans are happy with it?
    — Jeremy Rutherford, New York Times, 13 July 2026
Definition of complainer
Noun
  • The commercial crab season has seen yearly delays for most of the last decade, due to entanglements and domoic acid concerns.
    — Anne Ewbank, Sacbee.com, 2 Nov. 2026
  • For me, the standout of the menu is the love-it-or-loathe-it durian crab curry.
    — Ali Domrongchai, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of crab
Noun
  • Ten babies had been born from pronuclear transfers, nine of them to mothers who were 35 or younger.
    — Megan Molteni, STAT, 2 Nov. 2026
  • Give me a great stroller, car seat, baby carrier, bottles, diapers, and somewhere safe for the baby to sleep.
    — Anna Moeslein, Glamour, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of baby
Noun
  • No bears have been captured, and the public was asked to avoid the trail area.
    — Minyvonne Burke, NBC news, 4 Nov. 2026
  • Among his trophies are an Alaskan moose and caribou, wild boars, bears, whitetail deer, Catalina goats and more mule deer bucks than some hunters see in a lifetime.
    — Rich LaRocco, Outdoor Life, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of bear
Noun
  • The financier Carl Icahn, Ackman’s longtime nemesis and business rival, famously denounced him as a self-righteous crybaby.
    — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 20 July 2026
  • As children, Keaton often dismissed her younger brother as a crybaby, scaredy cat and a nuisance who was coddled by their mother.
    — Hadley Hall Meares, Vanity Fair, 26 Dec. 2025
Definition of crybaby
Noun
  • Record-collecting Gen X cranks might be reminded of rickety ’90s fixtures like Cheater Slicks and Country Teasers.
    — Stuart Berman, Pitchfork, 5 Nov. 2026
  • Gone were compositor rooms where as many as a 100 workers laid out letters and pulled cranks.
    — Aaron Glantz, Christian Science Monitor, 31 Oct. 2026
Definition of crank

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“Whiner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/whiner. Accessed 10 Nov. 2026.

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