discontent

Roget category 832

6. Words relating to the sentient and moral
› 6.2. Personal affections
›› 6.2.1. Passive affections

#832. Discontent

noun

discontent, discontentment — dissatisfaction — dissent etc. 489.
disappointment, mortification — cold comfort — regret etc. 833 — repining, taking on etc. v. — heart-burning, heart-grief — querulousness etc. (lamentation) 839 — hypercriticism.
inquietude, vexation of spirit, soreness — worry, concern, fear etc. 860.
[person who is discontented] malcontent, grumbler, growler, croaker, dissident, dissenter, laudator temporis acti [Lat.] — censurer, complainer, fault-finder, murmerer^†.
cave of Adullam^†, indignation meeting, winter of our discontent" [Henry VI]; with what I most enjoy contented least" [Shakespeare].

verb

be discontented etc. adj. — quarrel with one's bread and butter — repine — regret etc. 833 — wish one at the bottom of the Red Sea — take on, take to heart — shrug the shoulders — make a wry face, pull a long face — knit one's brows — look blue, look black, look black as thunder, look blank, look glum.
take in bad part, take ill — fret, chafe, make a piece of work [Fr.] — grumble, croak — lament etc. 839.
cause discontent etc. n. — dissatisfy, disappoint, mortify, put out, disconcert — cut up — dishearten.

adjective

discontented — dissatisfied etc. v. — unsatisfied, ungratified — dissident — dissentient etc. 489 — malcontent, malcontented, exigent, exacting, hypercritical.
repining etc. v. — regretful etc. 833 — down in the mouth etc. (dejected) 837.
in high dudgeon, in a fume, in the sulks, in the dumps, in bad humor — glum, sulky — sour as a crab — soured, sore — out of humor, out of temper.
disappointing etc. v. — unsatisfactory.
frustrated (failure) 732.

interjection

so much the worse!,

phrase

that won't do, that will never do, it will never do — curtae nescio quid semper abest rei [Lat.] [Horace]; ne Jupiter Quidem omnibus placet [Lat.] — poor in abundance, famished at a feast" [Young].

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