discontentive

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/ˌdɪskənˈtɛntɪv/

adjective

Relating or tending toward discontent.

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Meanings

adjectivediscontentive (comparative more discontentive, superlative most discontentive)

comparative more discontentive · superlative most discontentive

  1. archaicRelating or tending toward discontent.

    Pride is ever discontentive: it both occasions more than any, and makes more than it doth occasion

    1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political

Origin

From discontent + -ive.

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APA

discontentive. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/discontentive

MLA

“discontentive.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/discontentive. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “discontentive,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/discontentive.

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