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Word Meanings - DISCONTENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not content; discontented; dissatisfied. Jer. Taylor. Passion seemed to be much discontent, but Patience was very quiet. Bunyan.

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  • RANCOR
    The deepest malignity or spite; deep-seated enmity or malice; inveterate hatred. "To stint rancour and dissencioun." Chaucer. It would not be easy to conceive the passion, rancor, and malice of their tongues and hearts. Burke. Syn. --
  • REPINER
    One who repines.
  • GRUDGEONS; GURGEONS
    Coarse meal.
  • SPITE
    1. Ill-will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the disposition to irritate, annoy, or thwart; petty malice; grudge; rancor; despite. Pope. This is the deadly spite that angers. Shak. 2. Vexation; chargrin; mortification. Shak. In spite
  • PIQUET
    See PICKET
  • RANCOROUS
    Full of rancor; evincing, or caused by, rancor; deeply malignant; implacably spiteful or malicious; intensely virulent. So flamed his eyes with rage and rancorous ire. Spenser.
  • DISEASEFUL
    1. Causing uneasiness. Disgraceful to the king and diseaseful to the people. Bacon. 2. Abounding with disease; producing diseases; as, a diseaseful climate.
  • DISCONTENT
    Not content; discontented; dissatisfied. Jer. Taylor. Passion seemed to be much discontent, but Patience was very quiet. Bunyan.
  • MURMUR
    1. A low, confused, and indistinct sound, like that of running water. 2. A complaint half suppressed, or uttered in a low, muttering voice. Chaucer. Some discontents there are, some idle murmurs. Dryden.
  • PIQUE
    A cotton fabric, figured in the loom, -- used as a dress goods for women and children, and for vestings, etc.
  • MURMUROUS
    Attended with murmurs; exciting murmurs or complaint; murmuring. The lime, a summer home of murmurous wings. Tennyson.
  • HATRED
    Strong aversion; intense dislike; hate; an affection of the mind awakened by something regarded as evil. Syn. -- Odium; ill will; enmity; hate; animosity; malevolence; rancor; malignity; detestation; loathing; abhorrence; repugnance; antipathy.
  • AVERSION
    1. A turning away. Adhesion to vice and aversion from goodness. Bp. Atterbury. 2. Opposition or repugnance of mind; fixed dislike; antipathy; disinclination; reluctance. Mutual aversion of races. Prescott. His rapacity had made him an object of
  • DISEASEFULNESS
    The quality of being diseaseful; trouble; trial. Sir P. Sidney.
  • ANNOYANCE
    1. The act of annoying, or the state of being annoyed; molestation; vexation; annoy. A deep clay, giving much annoyance to passengers. Fuller. For the further annoyance and terror of any besieged place, they would throw into it dead bodies.
  • REPININGLY
    With repening or murmuring.
  • MURMURATION
    The act of murmuring; a murmur. Skelton.
  • MURMURER
    One who murmurs.
  • COMPLAINTFUL
    Full of complaint.
  • EXPOSTULATION
    The act of expostulating or reasoning with a person in opposition to some impropriety of conduct; remonstrance; earnest and kindly protest; dissuasion. We must use expostulation kindly. Shak.
  • HODGKIN'S DISEASE
    A morbid condition characterized by progressive anæmia and enlargement of the lymphatic glands; -- first described by Dr. Hodgkin, an English physician.
  • JUMPING DISEASE
    A convulsive tic similar to or identical with miryachit, observed among the woodsmen of Maine.
  • AGGRIEVANCE
    Oppression; hardship; injury; grievance.
  • KSHATRIYA; KSHATRUYA
    The military caste, the second of the four great Hindoo castes; also, a member of that caste. See Caste.
  • LOVE-SICKNESS
    The state of being love-sick.
  • WEIL'S DISEASE
    An acute infectious febrile disease, resembling typhoid fever, with muscular pains, disturbance of the digestive organs, jaundice, etc.

 

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