All grump synonyms
grump
G g noun grump
- malcontent — not satisfied or content with currently prevailing conditions or circumstances.
- crab — A crab is a sea creature with a flat round body covered by a shell, and five pairs of legs with large claws on the front pair. Crabs usually move sideways.
- bear — If you bear something somewhere, you carry it there or take it there.
- complainer — A complainer is someone who complains a lot about their problems or about things they do not like.
- grouch — to be sulky or morose; show discontent; complain, especially in an irritable way.
- sorehead — a disgruntled or vindictive person, especially an unsportsmanlike loser: Don't be such a sorehead, they won fair and square.
- sourpuss — a person having a grouchy disposition that is often accompanied by a scowling facial expression.
- whiner — to utter a low, usually nasal, complaining cry or sound, as from uneasiness, discontent, peevishness, etc.: The puppies were whining from hunger.
- curmudgeon — If you call someone a curmudgeon, you do not like them because they are mean or bad-tempered.
verb grump
- eat one's heart out — Anatomy. a hollow, pumplike organ of blood circulation, composed mainly of rhythmically contractile smooth muscle, located in the chest between the lungs and slightly to the left and consisting of four chambers: a right atrium that receives blood returning from the body via the superior and inferior vena cavae, a right ventricle that pumps the blood through the pulmonary artery to the lungs for oxygenation, a left atrium that receives the oxygenated blood via the pulmonary veins and passes it through the mitral valve, and a left ventricle that pumps the oxygenated blood, via the aorta, throughout the body.
- sulk — to remain silent or hold oneself aloof in a sullen, ill-humored, or offended mood: Promise me that you won't sulk if I want to leave the party early.
- grousing — to grumble; complain: I've never met anyone who grouses so much about his work.
- lose heart — to become despondent or disillusioned (over something)
- bitch — If someone calls a woman a bitch, they are saying in a very rude way that they think she behaves in a very unpleasant way.
- mope — to be sunk in dejection or listless apathy; sulk; brood.
- pout — to thrust out the lips, especially in displeasure or sullenness.