Word Meanings - DISPLEASANCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Displeasure; discontent; annoyance. Chaucer.

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.
DISCONTENT
Not content; discontented; dissatisfied. Jer. Taylor. Passion seemed to be much discontent, but Patience was very quiet. Bunyan.
DISCONTENTATION
Discontent. Ascham.
DISCONTENTIVE
Relating or tending to discontent. "Pride is ever discontentive." Feltham.
DISCONTENTING
1. Discontented. Shak. 2. Causing discontent; dissatisfying. Milton.
DISCONTENTED
Dissatisfied; uneasy in mind; malcontent. And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him. 1 Sam. xxii. 2. -- Dis`con*tent"ed*ly, adv. -- Dis`con*tent"ed*ness, n.
DISPLEASURE
1. The feeling of one who is displeased; irritation or uneasiness of the mind, occasioned by anything that counteracts desire or command, or which opposes justice or a sense of propriety; disapprobation; dislike; dissatisfaction; disfavor;
DISCONTENTMENT
The state of being discontented; uneasiness; inquietude. Bacon.
DISCONTENTFUL
Full of discontent.