Definition of Discontent

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Discontent

Not content; discontented; dissatisfied.

To deprive of content; to make uneasy; to dissatisfy.

Want of content; uneasiness and inquietude of mind; dissatisfaction; disquiet.

A discontented person; a malcontent.

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Discontent Quotations

The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.
Benjamin Franklin

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
Mohandas Gandhi

Now is the winter of our discontent.
William Shakespeare

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.
Thomas A. Edison

Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas A. Edison

Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.
Thomas A. Edison

Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
Noam Chomsky

Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, the Bastard Time.
John Steinbeck

When I go to farms or little towns, I am always surprised at the discontent I find. And New York, too often, has looked across the sea toward Europe. And all of us who turn our eyes away from what we have are missing life.
Norman Rockwell

Discontent Translations

discontent in German is unzufrieden, Unzufriedenheit
discontent in Italian is malcontento
discontent in Spanish is disgustado

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