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 Faërie 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.