Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Restlessly unhappy; malcontent.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Uneasy in mind; dissatisfied; unquiet.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- past participle Dissatisfied; uneasy in mind; malcontent.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Experiencing
discontent ,dissatisfaction . - adjective Of or pertaining to discontent.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective showing or experiencing dissatisfaction or restless longing
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Examples
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Predictably and predicted, foreseeably and foreseen, by me, George Cunningham, and indeed Enoch Powell, during the Commons debates of 1977 – 79, a Scottish Parliament, once established, is going to ask for more and more, and will remain discontented until such time it has got it.
Cameron is Wrong. The Conservatives did get it right. O'Neill 2009
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She is sorry to find he is discontented, which is sinful and horrid, and hopes Mr. Squeers will flog him into a happier state of mind.
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She is sorry to find he is discontented, which is sinful and horrid, and hopes Mr Squeers will flog him into
Nicholas Nickleby Charles Dickens 1841
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Gibbs called discontented liberals the "professional left" and said some of them
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Caught completely unawares, you fall into a kind of discontented alarm.
Archive 2007-10-01 Jenni's life at the moment 2007
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Caught completely unawares, you fall into a kind of discontented alarm.
Jenni's life at the moment Jenni's life at the moment 2007
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a satisfactory position for the discontented is the most difficult.
How to Succeed or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune Orison Swett Marden 1887
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A young man who gets drunk or dissipates otherwise, who offers as an excuse, "Well, I was feeling kind of discontented and had to do something," is afflicted with the wrong kind of discontent in its most virulent form.
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For a moment only, for is it not the soul, a kind of discontented crying out against pleasure and pain, which comes back distressingly into this after all pathetic music?
Plays, Acting and Music A Book Of Theory Arthur Symons 1905
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One day he announced that he was "discontented" once more, and should remain so till he had "found a hose-in-hose."
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