Word Meanings - GRUDGEFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Full of grudge; envious. "Grudgeful discontent." Spenser.
Related words: (words related to GRUDGEFUL)
- GRUDGEONS; GURGEONS
Coarse meal. - DISCONTENT
Not content; discontented; dissatisfied. Jer. Taylor. Passion seemed to be much discontent, but Patience was very quiet. Bunyan. - ENVIOUS
1. Malignant; mischievous; spiteful. Each envious brier his weary legs doth scratch. Shak. 2. Feeling or exhibiting envy; actuated or directed by, or proceeding from, envy; -- said of a person, disposition, feeling, act, etc.; jealously pained - GRUDGE
grouchier, grocier, groucier; cf. Icel. krytja to murmur, krutr a 1. To look upon with desire to possess or to appropriate; to envy the possession of; to begrudge; to covet; to give with reluctance; to desire to get back again; -- followed by the - DISCONTENTATION
Discontent. Ascham. - DISCONTENTIVE
Relating or tending to discontent. "Pride is ever discontentive." Feltham. - DISCONTENTING
1. Discontented. Shak. 2. Causing discontent; dissatisfying. Milton. - DISCONTENTED
Dissatisfied; uneasy in mind; malcontent. And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him. 1 Sam. xxii. 2. -- Dis`con*tent"ed*ly, adv. -- Dis`con*tent"ed*ness, n. - GRUDGER
One who grudges. - DISCONTENTMENT
The state of being discontented; uneasiness; inquietude. Bacon. - SPENSERIAN
Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faƫrie Queene." - GRUDGEFUL
Full of grudge; envious. "Grudgeful discontent." Spenser. - DISCONTENTFUL
Full of discontent. - DISPENSER
One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors. - BEGRUDGE
To grudge; to envy the possession of.