grievance
grievance is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Grieving; grief; affliction. The . . . grievance of a mind unreasonably yoked. Milton.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Synonyms (Webster's 1913)
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- accident
- adversity
- and
- awry
- bad
- badness
- bale
- bane
- bias
- bigotry
- blow
- box
- breach
- bruise
- buffet
- calamity
- casualty
- catastrophe
- cause
- cost
- cry
- crying
- custom
- damage
- demon
- destruction
- deterioration
- devil
- disadvantage
- disadvantageous
- disaster
- disastrous
- disservice
- doer
- drawback
- ell
- encroach
- evil
- favor
- favoritism
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is grievance.
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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