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grievance - 20 thesaurus results
Main Entry: grievance
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: complaint, gripe
Synonyms: affliction, ax to grind*, beef*, bellyache*, blast, case, cross*, damage, distress, grief, grouse*, hardship, holler*, hoo-ha*, howl*, injury, injustice, kick, knock*, objection, outrage, pain, pain in the neck*, rap*, resentment, rigor, roar, rumble, sorrow, squawk*, stink*, trial, tribulation, trouble, unhappiness, violence, wrong, yell, big stink, flack, jeremiad
Antonyms: compliment, flattery, praise
Main Entry: burden
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: mental weight; stress
Synonyms: Herculean task, accountability, affliction, albatross*, anxiety, ball and chain, blame, care, charge, clog, concern, deadweight, difficulty, duty, encumbrance, excess baggage, grievance, hardship, hindrance, load, millstone, misfortune, mishap, obstruction, onus, punishment, responsibility, sorrow, strain, task, tax, thorn in one's side, trial, trouble, weary load, work, worry
Antonyms: aid, help, relief
Main Entry: frustration
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: disappointment, thwarting
Synonyms: annoyance, bitter pill, blow, bummer, chagrin, defeat, dissatisfaction, downer*, drag*, failure, fizzle, grievance, hindrance, impediment, irritation, letdown, obstruction, resentment, setback, vexation, blocking, circumvention, contravention, curbing, disgruntlement, foiling, nonfulfillment, nonsuccess, old one-two, unfulfillment
Antonyms: aid, assistance, cooperation, encouragement, help, support, facilitation
Main Entry: grief
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: mental suffering
Synonyms: affliction, agony, anguish, bereavement, care, dejection, depression, desolation, despair, despondency, discomfort, disquiet, distress, dole, dolor, gloom, grievance, harassment, heartache, heartbreak, lamenting, malaise, melancholy, misery, mortification, mourning, pain, purgatory, regret, remorse, rue, sadness, sorrow, torture, trial, tribulation, trouble, unhappiness, vexation, woe, worry, wretchedness, bemoaning, bewailing, deploring, infelicity, lamentation, mournfulness, repining
Antonyms: delight, ecstasy, exhilaration, happiness
Main Entry: grudge
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: hard feelings
Synonyms: animosity, animus, antipathy, aversion, bad blood*, bitterness, dislike, enmity, grievance, hate, hatred, ill will, injury, injustice, malevolence, malice, malignancy, peeve, pet peeve*, pique, rancor, resentment, spite, spleen, venom, bone to pick, maliciousness, spitefulness
Antonyms: favor, forgiveness, good will
Main Entry: hardship
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: personal burden
Synonyms: accident, adversity, affliction, asperity, austerity, calamity, case, catastrophe, curse, danger, destitution, difficulty, disaster, discomfort, distress, drudgery, fatigue, grief, grievance, hard knocks*, hazard, injury, labor, mischance, misery, misfortune, need, oppression, peril, persecution, privation, rainy day, rigor, sorrow, suffering, toil, torment, travail, trial, tribulation, trouble, vicissitude, want, worry, Herculean task, rotten luck, tough break, tough luck, uphill battle
Antonyms: advantage, assistance, benefit, blessing, ease, favor, gain, good, profit
Main Entry: hate
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: extreme dislike
Synonyms: abhorrence, abomination, anathema, animosity, animus, antagonism, antipathy, aversion, bête noire*, bother, bugbear*, detestation, disgust, enmity, execration, frost*, grievance, gripe, hatred, horror, hostility, ill will, irritant, loathing, malevolence, nuisance, objection, odium, pain, rancor, rankling, repugnance, repulsion, resentment, revenge, revulsion, scorn, spite, trouble, venom, black beast, malignity, mislike, nasty look, no love lost
Notes: hate means to 'dislike intensely, loathe' and despise means 'look down on contemptuously'
Antonyms: liking, love, loving
Main Entry: indignity
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: embarrassment, humiliation
Synonyms: abuse, affront, contumely, discourtesy, dishonor, disrespect, grievance, injury, injustice, insult, obloquy, opprobrium, outrage, put-down*, reproach, slap*, slight, slur, snub, taunt, backhanded compliment, take-down
Antonyms: dignity, esteem, honor, regard, respect
Main Entry: injury
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: hurt, harm
Synonyms: abrasion, abuse, affliction, affront, agony, bad, bite, blemish, bruise, burn, chop, cramp, cut, damage, detriment, discomfiture, disservice, distress, evil, fracture, gash, grievance, hemorrhage, ill, indignity, injustice, insult, laceration, lesion, libel, loss, mischief, misery, nick, ouch*, outrage, pang, ruin, scar, scratch, shock, slander, sore, sprain, stab, sting, suffering, swelling, trauma, twinge, wound, wrong, boo-boo, deformation, impairment, mutilation
Antonyms: aid, assistance, benefit, blessing, favor, good, health, help, right
Main Entry: millstone
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: burden
Synonyms: accountability, affliction, albatross*, anxiety, ball and chain, blame, charge, concern, cross, deadweight, difficulty, encumbrance, grievance, hardship, hindrance, load, mental weight, misfortune, onus, punishment, responsibility, strain, stress, task, thorn in one's side, trial, trouble, worry
Main Entry: objection
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: argument, disagreement
Synonyms: cavil, censure, challenge, criticism, demur, difficulty, disapproval, discontent, disinclination, dislike, displeasure, dissatisfaction, doubt, exception, grievance, gripe, hesitation, kick, niggle*, odium, opposition, protest, question, rejection, reluctance, remonstrance, scruple, shrinking, squawk*, stink*, counter-argument, declination, demurral, demurring, disapprobation, disesteem, protestation, remonstration, repugnancy, revilement, unwillingness
Antonyms: acceptance, agreement, concurrence, consent
Main Entry: protest
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: complaint, disapproval
Synonyms: bellyache*, blackball*, challenge, clamor, declaration, demonstration, demur, difficulty, dissent, flak*, grievance, gripe, grouse*, holler*, howl, kick*, knock*, march, moratorium, nix, objection, outcry, question, rally, remonstrance, revolt, riot, stink*, tumult, turmoil, big stink, demurral, formal complaint, protestation, remonstration
Antonyms: acceptance, approval, praise
Main Entry: provocation
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: incitement, stimulus
Synonyms: affront, annoyance, cause, challenge, dare, defy, grievance, grounds, harassment, incentive, indignity, inducement, injury, instigation, insult, justification, motivation, offense, provoking, reason, taunt, vexation, bothering, brickbat, casus belli, grabber, irking, vexing
Antonyms: prevention, repression, suppression
Main Entry: sit-in
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: civil disobedience
Synonyms: complaint, demonstration, fast, grievance, march, passive resistance, protest, rally, revolt, riot, strike, love-in, peace march, peaceful protest, sit-down, walkout
Main Entry: pet peeve
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: personal hate
Synonyms: bete noire, bugbear, complaint, grievance, groan, peeve, hateful object, personal vexation, pet aversion
Main Entry: complaint
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: statement of disagreement, discontent
Synonyms: accusation, annoyance, beef*, cavil, charge, clamor, criticism, dissatisfaction, fault-finding, grievance, gripe, grouse, grumble, guff*, kick, lament, moan, objection, protest, rap, remonstrance, representation, reproach, rumble*, squawk, stink, trouble, wail, whine, CC, expostulation, jeremiad, plaint, protestation, remonstration
Antonyms: applause, approval, commendation, happiness, praise, recommendation, sanction, contentedness
Main Entry: gripe
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: complaint
Synonyms: ache, affliction, disorder, distress, grievance, groan, grouse, grumble, illness, indisposition, infirmity, moan, objection, pain, pang, aching
Antonyms: compliment, flattery, praise
Main Entry: beef
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: complaint
Synonyms: criticism, dispute, grievance, gripe, grouse, grumble, objection, quarrel, rhubarb*, squabble, bickering, protestation
Antonyms: compliment, praise
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