discontentment

  • 121letdown — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. letup, abatement, fall; comedown, setback, drawback; disappointment, disillusion; blow, anticlimax. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. frustration, setback, disillusionment; see disappointment 1 . III (Roget s 3 …

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  • 122opposition — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Act of opposing Nouns 1. (antagonism) opposition, antagonism, antipathy; enmity, hate; repugnance, oppugnancy, oppugnation, impugnation; contravention, contradiction; counteraction; counterplot;… …

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  • 123regret — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Looking back with sorrow Nouns regret, remorse, qualms, compunction, contrition, attrition, repentance, penitence; lamentation, mourning; heartache, sorrow, grief, bitterness, disappointment, discontent; …

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  • 124disgruntlement — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Unhappiness caused by the failure of one s hopes, desires, or expectations: disappointment, discontent, discontentment, dissatisfaction, letdown, regret. See HAPPY …

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  • 125Discontent — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Discontent >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 discontent discontent discontentment Sgm: N 1 dissatisfaction dissatisfaction Sgm: N 1 dissent dissent &c. 489 GRP: N 2 Sgm: N 2 disappointment disappointment mor …

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  • 126discontent — {{11}}discontent (adj.) mid 15c.; see DISCONTENT (Cf. discontent) (v.). The noun meaning state or condition of discontent is recorded from 1580s. Winter of our discontent is from Richard III. {{12}}discontent (v.) late 15c., from DIS (Cf. dis )… …

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  • 127India —    The most valued colonial possession of the British Empire. The Mughal Empire (1526–1857) had been broken, as a unified political entity to be reckoned with, for competing British and French commercial interests in India by the early eighteenth …

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  • 128discontent — noun lack of contentment or satisfaction. ↘a person who is dissatisfied. Derivatives discontented adjective discontentedly adverb discontentedness noun discontentment noun …

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