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].


