Crossword clues for discontent
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Discontent \Dis`con*tent"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Discontented;
p. pr. & vb. n. Discontenting.]
To deprive of content; to make uneasy; to dissatisfy.
--Suckling.
Discontent \Dis`con*tent"\, n.
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Want of content; uneasiness and inquietude of mind; dissatisfaction; disquiet.
Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York.
--Shak.The rapacity of his father's administration had excited such universal discontent.
--Hallam -
A discontented person; a malcontent. [R.]
Thus was the Scotch nation full of discontents.
--Fuller.
Discontent \Dis`con*tent"\ (d[i^]s`k[o^]n*t[e^]nt"), a.
Not content; discontented; dissatisfied.
--Jer. Taylor.
Passion seemed to be much discontent, but Patience was
very quiet.
--Bunyan.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
Not content; discontented; dissatisfied. n. 1 dissatisfaction. 2 A longing for better times or circumstances. 3 A discontented person. (see also ''malcontent''). v
To deprive of contentment; to make uneasy; to dissatisfy.
WordNet
adj. showing or experiencing dissatisfaction or restless longing; "saw many discontent faces in the room"; "was discontented with his position" [syn: discontented] [ant: contented]
n. a longing for something better than the present situation [syn: discontentment, discontentedness] [ant: contentment]
v. make dissatisfied [ant: content]
Usage examples of "discontent".
Not the benign and just devas that civilized Aryas worshipped, but the primordial spirit-lords that the Asura races bowed toas did a few discontented Aryas like Manthara herself.
The arts of Aureolus diffused fears and discontent among the principal officers of his rival.
England mortally cankered with social discontent were not grounded in a surprising familiarity with backstairs morale.
To determine the difficulties which had arisen with regard to Holland, which Dumouriez dreamed of conquering with an imaginary army, and being discontented besides with the Dutch for not rigorously excluding English vessels from their ports, the Emperor constituted the Batavian territory a kingdom under his brother Louis.
The deaths of a son and a nephew, with the execution of a great number of respectable, and perhaps innocent friends, who were involved in their fall, may be sufficient, however, to justify the discontent of the Roman people, and to explain the satirical verses affixed to the palace gate, comparing the splendid and bloody reigns of Constantine and Nero.
In this dangerous elevation, Leo the Third supported himself against the envy of his equals, the discontent of a powerful faction, and the assaults of his foreign and domestic enemies.
Spongy fat blurred his features, making it impossible for his round purplish face to even hold any other expression than the discontented hoggishness that was habitual to it.
And the more devoutly that he listens, And the holier message that is sent, Still the more his soul must struggle vainly, Bowed beneath a noble discontent.
But as many of the Armenian nobles still refused to abandon the plurality of their gods and of their wives, the public tranquillity was disturbed by a discontented faction, which insulted the feeble age of their sovereign, and impatiently expected the hour of his death.
When we detect some area of jackassery within ourselves, we feel discontent.
Alirio Antonio Arcila was poised to reap the violent fruit of ten years spent planting the seeds of discontent in the Lacandon jungle, the international Communist movement was no more.
FitzOsbert, known as Longbeard, was the spokesman of the popular discontent.
Some of these enemies turned to open rebellion, leading armies composed of samurai who were discontented with the progressive policies of the Meiji government.
Gaspard Caderousse, unable to appear abroad in his pristine splendor, had given up any further participation in the pomps and vanities, both for himself and wife, although a bitter feeling of envious discontent filled his mind as the sound of mirth and merry music from the joyous revellers reached even the miserable hostelry to which he still clung, more for the shelter than the profit it afforded.
Winter damps down Discontent, which smolders by the Hearths of Cottages and Pothouses, but once let out with the Spring Airing, it will flee abroad like the foul Odors from a sealed House, staining the Air.