Roget's Thesaurus

#832. Discontent

Nouns

discontent, discontentment; dissatisfaction; dissent etc. 489. disappointment, mortification; cold comfort; regret etc. 833; repining, taking on etc. v.; heart-burning, heart-grief; querulousness etc. (lamentation) 839; hypercriticism. inquietude, vexation of spirit, soreness; worry, concern, fear etc. 860. [person who is discontented] malcontent, grumbler, growler, croaker, dissident, dissenter, laudator temporis acti [Lat.]; censurer, complainer, fault-finder, murmerer. cave of Adullam, indignation meeting, winter of our discontent [Henry VI]; with what I most enjoy contented least [Shakespeare].

Verbs

be discontented etc. adj.; quarrel with one's bread and butter; repine; regret etc. 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 etc. 839. cause discontent etc. n.; dissatisfy, disappoint, mortify, put out, disconcert; cut up; dishearten.

Adjectives

discontented; dissatisfied etc. v.; unsatisfied, ungratified; dissident; dissentient etc. 489; malcontent, malcontented, exigent, exacting, hypercritical. repining etc. v.; regretful etc. 833; down in the mouth etc. (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 etc. v.; unsatisfactory. frustrated (failure) 732.

Interjections

so much the worse!

Phrases

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.]; poor in abundance, famished at a feast [Young].