Discontent


Synonyms for discontent
noun dissatisfaction

restlessness
uneasiness
regret

displeasure
unhappiness
envy

vexation
discontentment
depression

fretfulness

Antonyms for discontent

calm
happiness
satisfaction

easiness
patience
contentedness

pleasure

Concept Thesaurus for word discontent
1. Passive Affections
Synonyms – noun

discontent
disappointment
repining
querulousness (lamentation)
soreness.
croaker
fault-finder
“winter of our discontent” [Henry VI].

discontentment
mortification
taking on
hypercriticism.
malcontent
laudator temporis acti
murmerer.

dissatisfaction
cold comfort
heart-burning
inquietude
grumbler
censurer
cave of Adullam

dissent
regret
heart-grief
vexation of spirit
growler
complainer
indignation meeting

Synonyms – verbs

be discontented
wish one at the bottom of the Red Sea
make a wry face
look black
take in bad part
make a piece of work
cause discontent
put out

quarrel with one’s bread and butter
take on
pull a long face
look black as thunder
take ill
grumble
dissatisfy
disconcert

repine
take to heart
knit one’s brows
look blank
fret
croak
disappoint
cut up

regret
shrug the shoulders
look blue
look glum.
chafe
lament
mortify
dishearten.

Synonyms – adjectives

discontented
dissident
exacting
down in the mouth (dejected)
in the dumps
sour as a crab
out of temper.

dissatisfied
dissentient
hypercritical.
in high dudgeon
in bad humor
soured
disappointing

unsatisfied
malcontent
repining
in a fume
glum
sore
unsatisfactory.

ungratified
exigent
regretful
in the sulks
sulky
out of humor

Synonyms – phrases
that will never do, it will never do; curtae nescio quid semper abest rei [Horace]; ne Jupiter Quidem omnibus placet; “poor in abundance, famished at a feast” [Young].
Antonyms

content

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