Meaning

1 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)A state of dissatisfaction or discontent.

More definitions
  • a longing for something better than the present situation

Examples

5 sentences
  1. Their marriage simmered with discontentment and unspoken anger.

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  2. Everything this boy says oozes discontentment. I have to wonder about his parents.

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  3. "Teenage discontentment" is redundant.

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  4. Misdirected discontentment on the left and right boiled over into violent incidents across the country.

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  5. Contentment enriches the poor. Discontentment impoverishes the rich.

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Translations

1 languages

Origin

From dis- + contentment.

From dis- + contentment.

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Forms

plural: discontentments
Singulardiscontentment
Pluraldiscontentments

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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