Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Absence of contentment; dissatisfaction.
- noun A restless longing for better circumstances.
- noun One who is discontented.
- adjective Discontented.
- transitive verb To make discontented.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Uneasy; dissatisfied; discontented.
- noun Want of content; uneasiness or inquietude of mind; dissatisfaction with some present state of things; displeasure.
- noun One who is discontented; a malcontent.
- To make discontented; deprive of contentment; dissatisfy; displease.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not content; discontented; dissatisfied.
- transitive verb To deprive of content; to make uneasy; to dissatisfy.
- noun Want of content; uneasiness and inquietude of mind; dissatisfaction; disquiet.
- noun rare A discontented person; a malcontent.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Dissatisfaction . - noun A
longing for bettertimes orcircumstances . - noun A discontented person. (see also
malcontent ).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make dissatisfied
- adjective showing or experiencing dissatisfaction or restless longing
- noun a longing for something better than the present situation
Etymologies
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Examples
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At the root of the discontent is the desire to have practical, not ideological, solutions to intractable problems.
Mark Penn: Who Will Win the Midterms? Mark Penn 2010
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The nerve centre of this discontent is the steam room, itself a source of perennial complaints.
Michael Holden's All ears Michael Holden 2010
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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.
Natasha Dern: Finding Success: Are You Doing What You Love? Natasha Dern 2010
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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.
Natasha Dern: Finding Success: Are You Doing What You Love? Natasha Dern 2010
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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.
Natasha Dern: Finding Success: Are You Doing What You Love? Natasha Dern 2010
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Mr. Miller attributes his voter appeal to what he calls discontent over expansion of the federal government.
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I know that this discontent is the basic trait that turns a person into a writer.
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(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) 2008
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A new inwardness, a discontent, is seeping across the country.
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As I point out in the piece, simmering discontent is a fact of Anglican existence.
A Flock Divided 2009
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