can't complain
Doing all right
Can't complain is a stock response to "How are you?" that means things are acceptable, not great but not bad.
The phrase often carries a note of resignation or modest satisfaction—life could be worse, so one has no grounds for complaint: How's retirement treating you? Can't complain.
Sometimes shortened to can't complain, can't complain as a conversational filler.
- satisfiedHaving enough, wanting nothing
- thankfulFeeling gratitude expressed
- tolerableAble to be endured
- resignedYielded to circumstances
- middlingOf moderate quality
manageable · calm · content · appreciative · okay · fair enough · no harm done · fine · at peace · bearable · smile · relaxed · neutral · untroubled · passable · acceptable · grateful · livable
- complacency phrasesgood enough, why bother, it is what it is, not my problem, whatever
can't complainon top of the world
Supremely pleased with life
living the dream · ecstatic · in dire straits · thrilled · suffering
can't complainover the moon
Extremely delighted
in agony · elated · heartbroken · euphoric · inconsolable
can't complainmiserable
Wretchedly unhappy, dejected
struggling · suffering · drowning · could be better · on top of the world
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