GRUMBLE meaning: 1. to complain about someone or something in an annoyed way: 2. If your stomach grumbles, it makes…. Learn more.

The meaning of GRUMBLE is to mutter in discontent. How to use grumble in a sentence.

GRUMBLE definition: 1. to complain about someone or something in an annoyed way: 2. If your stomach grumbles, it makes…. Learn more.

When you grumble, you complain about something clearly but quietly, in a low mutter. Some people grumble a hundred times a day, about everything from the weather to the traffic to their bad luck at bowling. The verb grumble is a great example of onomatopoeia, a word that sounds just like what it means.

2025年1月28日 · grumble (third-person singular simple present grumbles, present participle grumbling, simple past and past participle grumbled) (intransitive) To make a low, growling or rumbling noise, like a hungry stomach or certain animals. The distant thunder grumbles.

There's been a lot of grumbling among the employees. Some of the customers have been grumbling about poor service. Fans grumbled about the team's poor play. “When are we going to leave?” he grumbled. His stomach was grumbling. We could hear thunder grumbling in the distance. We could hear the grumble of thunder in the distance.

If someone grumbles, they complain about something in a bad-tempered way. They grumble about how hard they have to work. Taft grumbled that the law so favored the criminal that trials seemed like a game of chance.

Dogs do not grumble about home improvements. If someone grumbles, they complain about something in a bad-tempered way.

1. to murmur or mutter in discontent. 2. to utter low, indistinct sounds; growl. 3. to rumble. 4. to express or utter with murmuring or complaining. n. 5. an expression of discontent; complaint. 6. grumbles, a grumbling, discontented mood. 7. a rumble. grum′bler, n. syn: See complain.

Synonyms for GRUMBLES: whines, complaints, moans, grievances, laments, fusses, whimpers, gripes; Antonyms of GRUMBLES: compliments, plaudits, commendations, praises, acclaim, sanctions, approvals, indorsements