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discontentful

discontentful adjective: full of discontent.

Adjective

discontentful (comparative more discontentful, superlative most discontentful)

  1. Full of discontent.
    • Thence home and to the office, where late, and so home to supper and to bed, and had a very pleasing and condescending answer from my poor father to-day in answer to my angry discontentful letter to him the other day, which pleases me mightily.1664 March 7 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “February 27th, 1663–1664”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume...

Forms of discontentful

comparativemore discontentful
superlativemost discontentful

Origin of discontentful

From discontent + -ful.

Questions about discontentful

What does discontentful mean?
Discontentful means full of discontent.
What part of speech is discontentful?
Discontentful is an adjective.

Words near discontentful in the dictionary

  1. discontentations
  2. discontented
  3. discontentedly
  4. discontentedness
  5. discontenteth
  6. discontentful
  7. discontenting
  8. discontention
  9. discontentions
  10. discontentive
  11. discontentment

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