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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

MAL'CONTENT, n. [mal and content.] A discontented subject of government; one who murmurs at the laws and administration, or who manifests his uneasiness by overt acts, as in sedition or insurrection.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: discontented as toward authority [syn: disaffected, ill-affected, malcontent, rebellious] n
1: a person who is discontented or disgusted

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Date: 1581 a discontented person: a. one who bears a grudge from a sense of grievance or thwarted ambition b. one who is in active opposition to an established order or government ; rebel II. adjective Etymology: Middle French, from mal- + content content Date: 1586 dissatisfied with the existing state of affairs ; discontented

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & adj. --n. a discontented person; a rebel. --adj. discontented or rebellious. Etymology: F (as MAL-, CONTENT(1))

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Malcontent Mal"con*tent`, a. [F., fr. mal ill + content. See Malice, Content.] discontented; uneasy; dissatisfied; especially, dissatisfied with the government. [Written also malecontent.] The famous malcontent earl of Leicester. --Milner.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Malcontent Mal"con*tent`, n. [F. malcontent.] One who discontented; especially, a discontented subject of a government; one who express his discontent by words or overt acts. --Spenser. Berkeley.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(malcontents) You can describe people as malcontents when you disapprove of the fact that they are dissatisfied with a situation and want it to change. (FORMAL) Five years ago a band of malcontents, mainly half-educated radicals, seized power. N-COUNT: usu pl [disapproval]

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Discontented, dissatisfied, unsatisfied, uneasy, insurgent.

Moby Thesaurus

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