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Definition of Grumbling
1. Adjective. Continuous full and low-pitched throbbing sound. "The rumbling rolling sound of thunder"
2. Noun. A loud low dull continuous noise. "They heard the rumbling of thunder"
Generic synonyms: Noise
Derivative terms: Grumble, Grumble, Grumble, Grumble, Rumble, Rumble, Rumble, Rumble
3. Noun. A complaint uttered in a low and indistinct tone.
Generic synonyms: Complaint
Derivative terms: Grumble, Grumble, Grumble, Murmur, Murmur, Mutter, Mutter
Definition of Grumbling
1. Verb. (present participle of grumble) ¹
2. Noun. complaining ¹
3. Noun. rumbling ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Grumbling
1. grumble [v] - See also: grumble
Lexicographical Neighbors of Grumbling
Literary usage of Grumbling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England, from by John Campbell Campbell (1847)
"These injunctions issued, however cautiously, from the Court of Chancery, having
on the other side of the Hall caused much grumbling, •which reached the ..."
2. The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature, Ancient by Richard Garnett, Leon i.e. Alexandre Le'on Valle'e, Léon Vallée, Alois Leonhard Brandl (1890)
"The popular resentment over the corruptions incident to the War of the Spanish
Succession led him, in, to publish the skit" The Grumbling Hive," a ..."
3. The Life of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini, John Addington Symonds (1889)
"The Pope, swelling with rage and grumbling, remained revolving what his son had
told him. CXIV. Two days afterwards the Cardinal Cornaro went to beg a ..."
4. The Life and Theatrical Times of Charles Kean, F.S.A. by Fanny Kemble, Kate Field, John William Cole (1882)
"I have been grumbling not a little at my weekly earnings. Thackeray, for that
wonderful book, "Vanity Fair," gets £00 a month; the curate who preached to us ..."
5. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1902)
"'This d 1 of a frost hinders me, and so Mr B. and I sit scolding and grumbling
and growling, he because he can't course, and I because I can't hunt, ..."
6. The Life of Thomas Jefferson by Henry Stephens Randall (1871)
"... carried out—Randolph's Tribute on this subject—Sightless Cyclops in the
ascendant, and Wise Ulysses grumbling among elderly Ladies and writing History. ..."
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