Discontent
Discontent
#832. Discontent. -- N. discontent, discontentment; dissatisfaction;
dissent &c. 489.
- disappointment, mortification; cold comfort; regret &c. 833; repining,
taking on &c. v.; heart-burning, heart-grief; querulousness &c.
(lamentation) 839; hypercriticism.
- inquietude, vexation of spirit, soreness; worry, concern, fear &c.
860.
- [person who is discontented] malcontent, grumbler, growler, croaker,
dissident, dissenter, laudator temporis acti[Lat]; censurer, complainer,
fault-finder, murmerer[obs].
- cave of Adullam[obs], indignation meeting, "winter of our discontent"
[Henry VI]; "with what I most enjoy contented least" [Shakespeare].
- V. be discontented &c. adj.; quarrel with one's bread and butter;
repine; regret &c. 833; wish one at the bottom of the Red Sea; take on,
take to heart; shrug the shoulders; make a wry face, pull a long face; knit
one's brows; look blue, look black, look black as thunder, look blank, look
glum.
- take in bad part, take ill; fret, chafe, make a piece of work[Fr];
grumble, croak; lament &c. 839.
- cause discontent &c. n.; dissatisfy, disappoint, mortify, put out,
disconcert; cut up; dishearten.
- Adj. discontented; dissatisfied &c. v.; unsatisfied, ungratified;
dissident; dissentient &c. 489; malcontent, malcontented, exigent,
exacting, hypercritical.
- repining &c. v.; regretful &c. 833; down in the mouth &c. (dejected)
837.
- in high dudgeon, in a fume, in the sulks, in the dumps, in bad humor;
glum, sulky; sour as a crab; soured, sore; out of humor, out of temper.
- disappointing &c. v.; unsatisfactory.
- frustrated (failure) 732.
- Int. so much the worse!
- Phr. that won't do, that will never do, it will never do; curtae
nescio quid semper abest rei [Lat][Horace]; ne Jupiter Quidem omnibus
placet[Lat][obs]; "poor in abundance, famished at a feast" [Young].