dissent &c 489.
disappointment, mortification; cold comfort; regret &c 833;
repining, taking on &c v.; heart-burning, heart-grief; querulousness &c
(lamentation) 839; hypercriticism.
inquietude, vexation of spirit, soreness; worry, concern, fear &c
860.
[person who is discontented] malcontent, grumbler, growler,
croaker, dissident, dissenter, laudator temporis acti [Lat.]; censurer,
complainer, fault-finder, murmerer†.
cave of Adullam†, indignation meeting, winter of our discontent
[Henry VI]; with what I most enjoy contented least [Shakespeare].
V. be discontented &c adj.; quarrel with one's bread and butter;
repine; regret &c 833; wish one at the bottom of the Red Sea; take on,
take to heart; shrug the shoulders; make a wry face, pull a long face;
knit one's brows; look blue, look black, look black as thunder, look
blank, look glum.
take in bad part, take ill; fret, chafe, make a piece of work
[Fr.]; grumble, croak; lament &c 839.
cause discontent &c n.; dissatisfy, disappoint, mortify, put out,
disconcert; cut up; dishearten.
Adj. discontented; dissatisfied &c v.; unsatisfied, ungratified;
dissident; dissentient &c 489; malcontent, malcontented, exigent,
exacting, hypercritical.
repining &c v.; regretful &c 833; down in the mouth &c (dejected)
837.
in high dudgeon, in a fume, in the sulks, in the dumps, in bad
humor; glum, sulky; sour as a crab; soured, sore; out of humor, out of
temper.
disappointing &c v.; unsatisfactory.
frustrated (failure) 732.
Int. so much the worse!,
Phr. that won't do, that will never do, it will never do; curtae nescio
quid semper abest rei [Lat.] [Horace]; ne Jupiter Quidem omnibus placet
[Lat.]; poor in abundance, famished at a feast [Young].