discontent
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˌdɪskənˈtɛnt/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɛnt
Noun
discontent (countable and uncountable, plural discontents)
- (uncountable) Dissatisfaction.
- (uncountable) A longing for better times or circumstances.
- c. 1593, [William Shakespeare], The Tragedy of King Richard the Third. […] (First Quarto), London: Printed by Valentine Sims [and Peter Short] for Andrew Wise, […], published 1597, OCLC 55191490, [Act I, scene i]:
- Now is the winter of our diſcontent, / Made glorious ſummer by this ſonne of Yorke: / And all the cloudes that lowrd vpon our houſe, / In the deepe boſome of the Ocean buried.
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- (countable) A discontented person; a malcontent.
Related terms
Translations
dissatisfaction — see dissatisfaction
a longing for better times
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a discontented person
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Verb
discontent (third-person singular simple present discontents, present participle discontenting, simple past and past participle discontented)
- To deprive of contentment; to make uneasy; to dissatisfy.
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