uncomplaining

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adjective

Without complaint; patient and tolerant.

Opposite
complaining
OriginEnglish complaining ← Middle English un- ← Old English un- →
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Meanings

adjectiveuncomplaining (comparative more uncomplaining, superlative most uncomplaining)

comparative more uncomplaining · superlative most uncomplaining

  1. Without complaint; patient and tolerant.

    One can hardly write of Suvla without a word of admiration for that patient and uncomplaining hero the Indian drabi, not forgetting his mules.

    1929, Sir William Marshall, Memories of Four Fronts, page 133

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectivenot complaining

Opposite
complaining

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*né
  2. Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
  3. Proto-Germanic*un-
  4. Proto-West Germanic*un-
  5. Old Englishun-
  6. Middle Englishun-
  7. Englishun-
  8. Englishcomplaining
  9. Englishuncomplaining

From un- + complaining.

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Translations

Bulgarian безропотен
  • безропотен (bezropoten)without complaint
German klaglos
  • klagloswithout complaint
Greek αβόγκητος
  • αβόγκητος (avógkitos)without complaint
Cite this entry
APA

uncomplaining. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/uncomplaining

MLA

“uncomplaining.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/uncomplaining. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “uncomplaining,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/uncomplaining.

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