adjective
- not content; dissatisfied; discontented.
noun
- Also dis·con·tent·ment. lack of contentment; dissatisfaction.
- a restless desire or craving for something one does not have.
- a malcontent.
verb (used with object)
- to make discontented; dissatisfy; displease.
noun
- Also called: discontentment lack of contentment, as with one’s condition or lot in life
- a discontented person
adjective
- dissatisfied
verb
- (tr) to make dissatisfied
late 15c., from dis- “not” + content (v.). Related: Discontented; discontentedly; discontentment; discontentedness.
“state or condition of discontent,” 1580s, from dis- + content (n.). Winter of our discontent is from “Richard III.”