Discontent
[dɪskən'tent] or [,dɪskən'tɛnt]
Definition
(a.) Not content; discontented; dissatisfied.
(v. t.) To deprive of content; to make uneasy; to dissatisfy.
(n.) Want of content; uneasiness and inquietude of mind; dissatisfaction; disquiet.
(n.) A discontented person; a malcontent.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Dissatisfaction, uneasiness, inquietude.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See CONTENT]
Typist: Lycurgus
Definition
adj. not content: dissatisfied: ill-humoured: peevish.—n. want of content: dissatisfaction: ill-humour.—v.t. to deprive of content: to stir up to ill-will.—adj. Discontent′ed dissatisfied.—adv. Discontent′edly.—n. Discontent′edness.—adj. Discontent′ful.—p.adj. Discontent′ing not contenting or satisfying: (Shak.) discontented.—n. Discontent′ment the opposite of contentment: ill-humour.
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Examples
- To the silence of the preceding moment, now succeeded murmurs of discontent, and agitations, and whispers and shrugs. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- But his dread of any change in Dorothea was stronger than his discontent, and he began to speak again in a tone of mere explanation. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Wealth, I said, and poverty; the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent. Plato. The Republic.
- It was not merely that they were weazened and shrivelled--though they were certainly that too--but they looked absolutely ferocious with discontent. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- She leaned back in a luxury of discontent. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- And, consequently, there is still discontent, I suppose? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- There was no refuge now from spiritual emptiness and discontent, and Dorothea had to bear her bad mood, as she would have borne a headache. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I became the victim of ingratitude and cold coquetry--then I desponded, and imagined that my discontent gave me a right to hate the world. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Realizing how men and women feel at all levels and at different places, he must speak their discontent and project their hopes. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- But this memory of past discontent only served to enhance her present joy. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- This marring of the peace of home, by long hours of discontent, was what Margaret was unprepared for. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The studied indifference, insolence, and discontent of her husband gave her no pain; and when he scolded or abused her, she was highly diverted. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Money, public debts, and social unrest and discontent, re-enter upon the miniature stage of this _Outline_. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Their eyes met, but there was discontent in his, and in hers there was only sadness. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- They arouse discontent with conditions which fall below their measure; they create a demand for surroundings coming up to their own level. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- All the miseries and discontents of life he traces to insatiable selfishness. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- That crime has been the origin of every lesser one, and of all his present discontents. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
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