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discontenting

discontenting adjective: discontented. Also the present participle and gerund of discontent.

Adjective

discontenting (comparative more discontenting, superlative most discontenting)

  1. (obsolete) discontented
    • Your discontenting father strive to qualifyc. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
  2. (obsolete) Causing discontent; dissatisfying.
    • how unpleasing and discontenting the society of body must needs be between those whose mindes cannot bee fociable1645 March 14 (Gregorian calendar), John Milton, Tetrachordon: Expositions upon the Foure Chief Places in Scripture, which Treat of Mariage, or Nullities in Mariage. […], London: [s.n.], →OCLC

Also used as

discontenting is also the present participle and gerund of discontent.

Forms of discontenting

comparativemore discontenting
superlativemost discontenting

Questions about discontenting

What does discontenting mean?
Discontenting means discontented.
What part of speech is discontenting?
Discontenting is an adjective.

Words near discontenting in the dictionary

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

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