Complain vs Suggestion - What's the difference?
complain | suggestion |
To express feelings of pain, dissatisfaction, or resentment.
* Milton
To make a formal accusation or bring a formal charge.
* Shakespeare
To creak or squeak, as a timber or wheel.
(countable) Something suggested (with subsequent adposition being for )
(uncountable) The act of suggesting.
(countable, psychology) Something implied, which the mind is liable to take as fact.
As a verb complain
is to express feelings of pain, dissatisfaction, or resentment.As a noun suggestion is
something suggested (with subsequent adposition being for.complain
English
Verb
(en verb)- Joe was always complaining about the noise made by his neighbours.
- O loss of sight, of thee I most complain !
- They've complained about me to the police again.
- Now, Master Shallow, you'll complain of me to the king?
- the complaining bed-springs
Synonyms
* grumble * grouse * grump * bitch * beef * gripe * whine * kvetch * moan * whinge * See alsoExternal links
* *Anagrams
* English reporting verbssuggestion
English
(wikipedia suggestion)Noun
- I have a small suggestion for fixing this: try lifting the left side up a bit.
- Traffic signs seem to be more of a suggestion than an order.
- Suggestion often works better than explicit demand.
- He's somehow picked up the suggestion that I like peanuts.