Dictionary entry

Discontent (3)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Dis′con‐tent″, n. 1. Want of content; uneasiness and inquietude of mind; dissatisfaction; disquiet.

Now is the winter of our discontent

Made glorious summer by this sun of York. Shak.

The rapacity of his father's administration had excited such universal discontent. Hallam

2. A discontented person; a malcontent.

Thus was the Scotch nation full of discontents. Fuller.