Whimpering
noun, verb
noun, verb ·3 syllables ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The sound of one who whimpers; a whimper; a feeble complaint.
"And my sea-birds made a great confusion in the awful calm, filling it with flashing pinions and plaintive whimperings, and settling into the shape of a dome all formed of beating wings, in which I on my ship and the tridentiferous god of the sea were enclosed, face to face."
Verb
- 1 present participle and gerund of whimper form-of, gerund, participle, present
Antonyms
All antonymsExample
More examples"How long are you going to keep whimpering about that? You can't change the past."