English edit

Etymology edit

discontent +‎ -ive

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˌdɪskənˈtɛntɪv/

Adjective edit

discontentive (comparative more discontentive, superlative most discontentive)

  1. (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.