discontentive
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
discontent + -ive
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
discontentive (comparative more discontentive, superlative most discontentive)
- (archaic) Relating or tending toward discontent.
- 1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political:
- Pride is ever discontentive: it both occasions more than any, and makes more than it doth occasion
References[edit]
“discontentive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.