whimper
Syllables: whim·per/ˈwɪmpə/
whimper noun: a low intermittent sob.
Noun
whimper (plural whimpers)
- A low intermittent sob.
Verb
whimper (third-person singular simple present whimpers, present participle whimpering, simple past and past participle whimpered)
- To cry or sob softly and intermittently.
- The lonely puppy began to whimper as soon as we left the room.
- At the sight of Mr. Utterson, the housemaid broke into hysterical whimpering; and the cook, crying out 'Bless God! it's Mr. Utterson,' ran forward as if to take him in her arms.1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Last Night”, in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, pages 69–70
- To cry with a low, whining, broken voice; to whine; to complain.
- Was ther euer yet prechers, but ther wer gainſayers? that ſpurned? that winſt? that whimpered againſt him?1549 April 1 (Gregorian calendar), Hughe Latymer [i.e., Hugh Latimer], Augustine Bernher, compiler, “[27 Sermons Preached by the Ryght Reuerende Father in God and Constant Matir of Iesus Christe...
- To say something in a whimpering manner.
- “Master, please don’t punish me!” he whimpered.
- Stripped of all bravado, Cersei breaks, and shows the very scared, vulnerable woman who has kept her emotions at bay. “I don’t want to die,” she whimpers, “Not like this.” It’s all the more moving for coming from a character who built her identity on steely resolve and contempt for such hoary...2019 May 12, Alex McLevy, “Westeros faces a disastrous final battle on the penultimate Game of Thrones (newbies)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 15 May 2019
whimper meaning in Urdu, Malayalam, Kannada and Punjabi
whimper in Urdu
- نالہ کرنا, سسکنا
whimper in Malayalam
- ചിണുങ്ങിക്കരയുക, ആവലാതിപറയുക, കരയുമ്പോലെ പരാതിപ്പെടുക
whimper in Kannada
- ಬಿಕ್ಕು
whimper in Punjabi
- to whimper, cry
- ਚੌਂਕਣਾ cauṅkṇā
More languagesFewer languages
- whimper in Persian
- زنویه zenuye, نالیدن nâlidan
Examples of whimper in a sentence
- Aural communication includes spoken words and paralexical sounds (groans, screams, whimpers); sound effects (wind, a car starting up and driving away); and music.
- This is the way a phenomenon ends — not with a sharknado but a whimper.
- My breath escaped in a thin whimper before I could stop myself.
Synonyms of whimper
Forms of whimper
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | whimpers |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | whimpers |
| present participle | whimpering |
| past participle | whimpered |
| past | whimpered |
Origin of whimper
From dialectal whimp (“to whine”) + -er (frequentative suffix). Compare German wimmern (“to whimper, whine”).
Words formed from whimper
Words that rhyme with whimper
Questions about whimper
- What does whimper mean?
- Whimper means a low intermittent sob.
- What is whimper in Urdu?
- Whimper in Urdu is نالہ کرنا, سسکنا. See Whimper meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is whimper?
- Whimper can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce whimper?
- Whimper is pronounced /ˈwɪmpə/.
- What is the plural of whimper?
- The plural of whimper is whimpers.
Words near whimper in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: whimper (page history and authors); whimper (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); whimper (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); whimper (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਚੌਂਕਣਾ (Punjabi) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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