discontentment

1. 1.

   a longing for something better than the present situation

   Synonymsdiscontentdiscontentedness

   Antonymscontentment

   Broaderlonging

   Narrowerdisgruntlementdysphoriadissatisfaction

Other forms of discontentment

plural

discontentments·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about discontentment

What does discontentment mean?

discontentment means "a longing for something better than the present situation".

How many syllables are in discontentment?

discontentment has 4 syllables: di-scon-tent-ment. The stress falls on "scon".

What is another word for discontentment?

Close synonyms include discontent, discontentedness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of discontentment?

The recorded antonyms are contentment.

Is discontentment a common word?

discontentment is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.