Other forms: remonstrated, remonstrating, remonstrates
To remonstrate is to protest to somebody about what they are doing. Remonstrate with a colleague.
It is done to their face and is an argument rather than a complaint made elsewhere. To remonstrate implies you expect to be listened to, which is what makes it dignified.
1verbremonstrateTo protest to somebody about what they are doing.
“He remonstrated with the referee for a full minute.”
remonstrate is an action.
Latin remonstrare, to point out, from re plus monstrare, to show, the root of demonstrate.
Proto-Indo-European
*men-
Latin
remōnstrō
English, today
remonstrate
From (the participle stem of) Latin remōnstrō, from Latin re- + mōnstrō.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA