Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Absence of contentment; dissatisfaction.
- n. A restless longing for better circumstances.
- n. One who is discontented.
- adj. Discontented.
- v. To make discontented.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Uneasy; dissatisfied; discontented.
- n. Want of content; uneasiness or inquietude of mind; dissatisfaction with some present state of things; displeasure.
- n. One who is discontented; a malcontent.
- To make discontented; deprive of contentment; dissatisfy; displease.
Wiktionary
- n. Dissatisfaction.
- n. A longing for better times or circumstances.
- n. A discontented person. (see also malcontent).
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Not content; discontented; dissatisfied.
- v. To deprive of content; to make uneasy; to dissatisfy.
- n. Want of content; uneasiness and inquietude of mind; dissatisfaction; disquiet.
- n. rare A discontented person; a malcontent.
WordNet 3.0
- v. make dissatisfied
- adj. showing or experiencing dissatisfaction or restless longing
- n. a longing for something better than the present situation
Etymologies
- dis- + content (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The soul cannot be mocked, and your discontent is your soul telling you that there is something else that you need to look for or find.”
The Huffington Post: Natasha Dern: Finding Success: Are You Doing What You Love?
“At the root of the discontent is the desire to have practical, not ideological, solutions to intractable problems.”
“The nerve centre of this discontent is the steam room, itself a source of perennial complaints.”
“Mr. Miller attributes his voter appeal to what he calls discontent over expansion of the federal government.”
The Wall Street Journal: Low-Profile Alaskan Swaps Law Court for the Limelight
“I know that this discontent is the basic trait that turns a person into a writer.”
“(Stuttgart 227), these rotary wholes are both the production of new forms in "discontent," and the rotation around their own foundations that perpetually unworks these wholes by returning them to the annular drive in which they have their origin.”
'The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815)
“A new inwardness, a discontent, is seeping across the country.”
“As I point out in the piece, simmering discontent is a fact of Anglican existence.”
“Demonstrator Nathalie Jalowezak says the discontent is not just about one bill.”
Voice of America: French Brace for More Demonstrations Against Reforms
“But, again, that discontent is largely rooted in sources that are outside of a specific desire to see McGinn succeed.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘discontent’.
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
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Mimi
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my dictionary
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Tunie: The Devil and the Feathery Wife
Recorded by Martin Carthy.
Now there was an old farmer lived over the hill
And a poor old fellow they say
He was plagued by a scolding wife
The worst misfortune that day<...demons, dwell, quail, damned, hiss, steam, navel, tea, feathers, barrel, stark naked, droppings and 27 more...
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Caesar
Bellum Gallicum
encroach, vanquish, bid, assail, avail, surmount, coerce, discomfit, rout, noteworthy, subjugate, governance and 76 more...
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WendyW's Words
hapless, diction, abhor, discontent, overwhelm, hawking, pestilence, uninspired, perfunctory, puisssant, prolixity, importune and 18 more...
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Tunie: Tom Paine's Bones
Written by Graham Moore; performed by a number of people (but notably Dick Gaughan).
As I dreamed out one evening
By a river of discontent
I bumped straight into old Tom Pa...cares, fares, cries, laughs, nobody, plan, monarchy, religion, rights of man, age of reason, hill, paper and 16 more...
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Conceptions
Ideas of interesting things.
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