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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Absence of contentment; dissatisfaction.
  • noun A restless longing for better circumstances.
  • noun One who is discontented.
  • adjective Discontented.
  • transitive verb To make discontented.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Uneasy; dissatisfied; discontented.
  • To make discontented; deprive of contentment; dissatisfy; displease.
  • noun Want of content; uneasiness or inquietude of mind; dissatisfaction with some present state of things; displeasure.
  • noun One who is discontented; a malcontent.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Want of content; uneasiness and inquietude of mind; dissatisfaction; disquiet.
  • noun rare A discontented person; a malcontent.
  • adjective Not content; discontented; dissatisfied.
  • transitive verb To deprive of content; to make uneasy; to dissatisfy.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Dissatisfaction.
  • noun A longing for better times or circumstances.
  • noun A discontented person. (see also malcontent).

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb make dissatisfied
  • adjective showing or experiencing dissatisfaction or restless longing
  • noun a longing for something better than the present situation

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