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.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DISCONTENT)
- Complaint
- Murmur
- discontent
- repining
- grievance
- annoyance
- remonstrance
- expostulation
- lamentation
- sickness
- disease
- Grudge
- Spite
- aversion
- rancor
- hatred
- pique
- dissatisfaction
- refusal
Related words: (words related to DISCONTENT)
- 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.