discontentive
English
Etymology
discontent + -ive
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌdɪskənˈtɛntɪv/
Adjective
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
- 1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political
References
discontentive in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913