Roget's Thesaurus eBook

Peter Roget
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 925 pages of information about Roget's Thesaurus.

Roget's Thesaurus eBook

Peter Roget
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 925 pages of information about Roget's Thesaurus.
unrepining[obs3], of good comfort; resigned &c. (patient) 826; cheerful &c. 836.
     unafflicted, unvexed[obs3], unmolested, unplagued[obs3]; serene &c.
826; at rest, snug, comfortable; in one’s element.
     satisfactory, tolerable, good enough, OK, all right, acceptable. 
     Adv. contently[obs3], contentedly, to one’s heart’s content; a la
bonne heure[Fr]; all for the best. 
     Int. amen &c. (assent) 488; very well, all the better, so much the
better, well and good; it will do, that will do; it cannot be helped. 
     Phr. nothing comes amiss.
     “a heart with room for every joy” [Bailey]; ich habe genossen das
irdische Gluck ich habe gelebt und geliebet [Ger][Schiller]; “nor cast one longing lingering look behind” [Gray]; “shut up in measureless content” [Macbeth]; “sweet are the thoughts that savor of content” [R.  Greene]; “their wants but few their wishes all confined” [Goldsmith]; might as well relax and enjoy it.

     #832.  Discontent. —­ N. discontent, discontentment; dissatisfaction;
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[obs3].
     cave of Adullam[obs3], 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][obs3]; “poor in abundance, famished at a feast” [Young].

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