See discontent on Wiktionary
{
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "discontentful"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "discontentive"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "Winter of Discontent"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "dis",
"3": "content"
},
"expansion": "dis- + content",
"name": "prefix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From dis- + content.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "discontents",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "~"
},
"expansion": "discontent (countable and uncountable, plural discontents)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "discontented"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "18 29 24 10 18",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Emotions",
"orig": "en:Emotions",
"parents": [
"Mind",
"Human",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1961 February, “Talking of Trains: Phase II units in service”, in Trains Illustrated, page 69:",
"text": "Another source of discontent with the Phase I stock has been obviated by relocation of the interior heating elements and the introduction of thermostatic control; this has eradicated the searing blasts of hot air passengers used to feel about their calves [...].",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Dissatisfaction."
],
"id": "en-discontent-en-noun-JxddxbXX",
"links": [
[
"Dissatisfaction",
"dissatisfaction"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(uncountable) Dissatisfaction."
],
"tags": [
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "21 1 56 5 17",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "26 8 31 16 19",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms prefixed with dis-",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "19 4 53 9 17",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Entries with translation boxes",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "14 2 62 4 18",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "21 2 56 3 17",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "22 11 38 12 17",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "19 8 30 30 13",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Czech translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "22 11 38 12 17",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "22 3 48 11 16",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with French translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "23 5 45 9 18",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with German translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "24 11 37 12 17",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Icelandic translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "20 2 53 8 17",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Spanish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "18 29 24 10 18",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Emotions",
"orig": "en:Emotions",
"parents": [
"Mind",
"Human",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "c. 1593 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The Tragedy of King Richard the Third. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Valentine Sims [and Peter Short] for Andrew Wise, […], published 1597, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:",
"text": "Now is the winter of our diſcontent, / Made glorious ſummer by this ſonne of Yorke: / And all the cloudes that lowrd vpon our houſe, / In the deepe boſome of the Ocean buried.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 1:",
"text": "Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A longing for better times or circumstances."
],
"id": "en-discontent-en-noun-83xToXb3",
"links": [
[
"longing",
"longing"
],
[
"times",
"times"
],
[
"circumstance",
"circumstance"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(uncountable) A longing for better times or circumstances."
],
"tags": [
"uncountable"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "4 92 4",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "a longing for better times",
"word": "tyytymättömyys"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "26 8 31 16 19",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms prefixed with dis-",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "19 8 30 30 13",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Czech translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "18 29 24 10 18",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Emotions",
"orig": "en:Emotions",
"parents": [
"Mind",
"Human",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A discontented person; a malcontent."
],
"id": "en-discontent-en-noun-fc-lAzez",
"links": [
[
"malcontent",
"malcontent"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(countable) A discontented person; a malcontent."
],
"tags": [
"countable"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "3 2 94",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "nedovolnik",
"sense": "a discontented person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "недоволник"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 2 94",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "a discontented person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "nespokojenec"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 2 94",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "a discontented person",
"word": "tyytymätön"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 2 94",
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "a discontented person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "einhver sem er óánægður"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 2 94",
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "a discontented person",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "einhver sem er óánægð"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 2 94",
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "a discontented person",
"word": "eitthvað sem er óánægt"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 2 94",
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "a discontented person",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "eitthvert sem er óánægt"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 2 94",
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "a discontented person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "uppreisnarseggur"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 2 94",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "a discontented person",
"word": "descontento"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˌdɪskənˈtɛnt/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"audio": "en-us-discontent.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/5d/En-us-discontent.ogg/En-us-discontent.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5d/En-us-discontent.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛnt"
}
],
"word": "discontent"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "dis",
"3": "content"
},
"expansion": "dis- + content",
"name": "prefix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From dis- + content.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "discontents",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "discontenting",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "discontented",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "discontented",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "discontent (third-person singular simple present discontents, present participle discontenting, simple past and past participle discontented)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "26 8 31 16 19",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms prefixed with dis-",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "19 8 30 30 13",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Czech translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "18 29 24 10 18",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Emotions",
"orig": "en:Emotions",
"parents": [
"Mind",
"Human",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To deprive of contentment; to make uneasy; to dissatisfy."
],
"id": "en-discontent-en-verb-PM~e6oiA"
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˌdɪskənˈtɛnt/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"audio": "en-us-discontent.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/5d/En-us-discontent.ogg/En-us-discontent.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5d/En-us-discontent.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛnt"
}
],
"word": "discontent"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "dis",
"3": "content"
},
"expansion": "dis- + content",
"name": "prefix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From dis- + content.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "more discontent",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most discontent",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "discontent (comparative more discontent, superlative most discontent)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "26 8 31 16 19",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms prefixed with dis-",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "19 8 30 30 13",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Czech translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "18 29 24 10 18",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Emotions",
"orig": "en:Emotions",
"parents": [
"Mind",
"Human",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Ponder […], →OCLC, page 22:",
"text": "[...] Paſſion seemed to be much diſcontent, but Patience was very quiet. Then Chriſtian aſked, What is the reaſon of the diſcontent of Paſſion.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Not content; discontented; dissatisfied."
],
"id": "en-discontent-en-adj-ws2u~p9P",
"links": [
[
"content",
"content#Adjective"
],
[
"discontented",
"discontented#Adjective"
],
[
"dissatisfied",
"dissatisfied#Adjective"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˌdɪskənˈtɛnt/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"audio": "en-us-discontent.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/5d/En-us-discontent.ogg/En-us-discontent.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5d/En-us-discontent.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛnt"
}
],
"word": "discontent"
}
{
"categories": [
"English adjectives",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms prefixed with dis-",
"English uncountable nouns",
"English verbs",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Requests for review of French translations",
"Requests for review of German translations",
"Rhymes:English/ɛnt",
"Rhymes:English/ɛnt/3 syllables",
"Terms with Bulgarian translations",
"Terms with Czech translations",
"Terms with Finnish translations",
"Terms with French translations",
"Terms with German translations",
"Terms with Icelandic translations",
"Terms with Spanish translations",
"en:Emotions"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "discontentful"
},
{
"word": "discontentive"
},
{
"word": "Winter of Discontent"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "dis",
"3": "content"
},
"expansion": "dis- + content",
"name": "prefix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From dis- + content.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "discontents",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "~"
},
"expansion": "discontent (countable and uncountable, plural discontents)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "discontented"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English uncountable nouns"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1961 February, “Talking of Trains: Phase II units in service”, in Trains Illustrated, page 69:",
"text": "Another source of discontent with the Phase I stock has been obviated by relocation of the interior heating elements and the introduction of thermostatic control; this has eradicated the searing blasts of hot air passengers used to feel about their calves [...].",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Dissatisfaction."
],
"links": [
[
"Dissatisfaction",
"dissatisfaction"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(uncountable) Dissatisfaction."
],
"tags": [
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English uncountable nouns"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "c. 1593 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The Tragedy of King Richard the Third. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Valentine Sims [and Peter Short] for Andrew Wise, […], published 1597, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:",
"text": "Now is the winter of our diſcontent, / Made glorious ſummer by this ſonne of Yorke: / And all the cloudes that lowrd vpon our houſe, / In the deepe boſome of the Ocean buried.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 1:",
"text": "Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A longing for better times or circumstances."
],
"links": [
[
"longing",
"longing"
],
[
"times",
"times"
],
[
"circumstance",
"circumstance"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(uncountable) A longing for better times or circumstances."
],
"tags": [
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns"
],
"glosses": [
"A discontented person; a malcontent."
],
"links": [
[
"malcontent",
"malcontent"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(countable) A discontented person; a malcontent."
],
"tags": [
"countable"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˌdɪskənˈtɛnt/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"audio": "en-us-discontent.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/5d/En-us-discontent.ogg/En-us-discontent.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5d/En-us-discontent.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛnt"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "a longing for better times",
"word": "tyytymättömyys"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "nedovolnik",
"sense": "a discontented person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "недоволник"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "a discontented person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "nespokojenec"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "a discontented person",
"word": "tyytymätön"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "a discontented person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "einhver sem er óánægður"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "a discontented person",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "einhver sem er óánægð"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "a discontented person",
"word": "eitthvað sem er óánægt"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "a discontented person",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "eitthvert sem er óánægt"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "a discontented person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "uppreisnarseggur"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "a discontented person",
"word": "descontento"
}
],
"word": "discontent"
}
{
"categories": [
"English adjectives",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms prefixed with dis-",
"English uncountable nouns",
"English verbs",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Requests for review of French translations",
"Requests for review of German translations",
"Rhymes:English/ɛnt",
"Rhymes:English/ɛnt/3 syllables",
"Terms with Bulgarian translations",
"Terms with Czech translations",
"Terms with Finnish translations",
"Terms with French translations",
"Terms with German translations",
"Terms with Icelandic translations",
"Terms with Spanish translations",
"en:Emotions"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "dis",
"3": "content"
},
"expansion": "dis- + content",
"name": "prefix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From dis- + content.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "discontents",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "discontenting",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "discontented",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "discontented",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "discontent (third-person singular simple present discontents, present participle discontenting, simple past and past participle discontented)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"To deprive of contentment; to make uneasy; to dissatisfy."
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˌdɪskənˈtɛnt/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"audio": "en-us-discontent.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/5d/En-us-discontent.ogg/En-us-discontent.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5d/En-us-discontent.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛnt"
}
],
"word": "discontent"
}
{
"categories": [
"English adjectives",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms prefixed with dis-",
"English uncountable nouns",
"English verbs",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Requests for review of French translations",
"Requests for review of German translations",
"Rhymes:English/ɛnt",
"Rhymes:English/ɛnt/3 syllables",
"Terms with Bulgarian translations",
"Terms with Czech translations",
"Terms with Finnish translations",
"Terms with French translations",
"Terms with German translations",
"Terms with Icelandic translations",
"Terms with Spanish translations",
"en:Emotions"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "dis",
"3": "content"
},
"expansion": "dis- + content",
"name": "prefix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From dis- + content.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "more discontent",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most discontent",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "discontent (comparative more discontent, superlative most discontent)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Ponder […], →OCLC, page 22:",
"text": "[...] Paſſion seemed to be much diſcontent, but Patience was very quiet. Then Chriſtian aſked, What is the reaſon of the diſcontent of Paſſion.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Not content; discontented; dissatisfied."
],
"links": [
[
"content",
"content#Adjective"
],
[
"discontented",
"discontented#Adjective"
],
[
"dissatisfied",
"dissatisfied#Adjective"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˌdɪskənˈtɛnt/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"audio": "en-us-discontent.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/5d/En-us-discontent.ogg/En-us-discontent.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5d/En-us-discontent.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛnt"
}
],
"word": "discontent"
}
Download raw JSONL data for discontent meaning in All languages combined (8.6kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-03-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-03-02 using wiktextract (db0bec0 and 633533e). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.