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discontentments

discontentments is the plural of discontentment.

Meaning of discontentment

Noun

discontentment (countable and uncountable, plural discontentments)

  1. A state of dissatisfaction or discontent.
    • By this that ſtraunger knight in preſence came, / And goodly ſalued them; who nought againe / Him anſwered, as courteſie became, / But with ſterne lookes, and ſtomachous diſdaine, / Gaue ſignes of grudge and diſcontentment vaine: […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 23, page 297

Questions about discontentments

What is discontentments the plural of?
Discontentments is the plural of discontentment.

Words near discontentments in the dictionary

  1. discontenting
  2. discontention
  3. discontentions
  4. discontentive
  5. discontentment
  6. discontentments
  7. discontents
  8. discontiguity
  9. discontiguous
  10. discontiguously
  11. discontiguousness

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