The lean flesh of a saltwater fish caught along Atlantic coast of southern U.S..

Roget 832: discontent, discontentment; dissatisfaction; dissent etc. 489.    disappointment, mortification; cold comfort; regret etc. 833; repining, taking on etc. v.; heart-burning, heart-grief; querulousness etc. (lamentation) 839; hypercriticism.    inquietude, vexation of spirit, soreness; worry, concern, fear etc. 860.    [person who is discontented] malcontent, grumbler, growler, croaker, dissident, dissenter, laudator temporis acti [Lat.]; censurer, complainer, fault-finder, murmerer^†.    cave of Adullam^†, indignation meeting, winter of our discontent" [Henry VI]; with what I most enjoy contented least" [Shakespeare]. ... meer laten zien

Roget 837: dejection; dejectedness etc. adj.; depression, prosternation^†; lowness of spirits, depression of spirits; weight on the spirits, oppression on the spirits, damp on the spirits; low spirits, bad spirits, drooping spirits, depressed spirits; heart sinking; heaviness of heart, failure of heart.    heaviness etc. adj.; infestivity^†, gloom; weariness etc. 841; taedium vitae, disgust of life; mal du pays etc. (regret) 833; anhedonia^†.    melancholy; sadness etc. adj.; il penseroso [It], melancholia, dismals^†, blues, lachrymals^†, mumps^†, dumps, blue devils, doldrums; vapors, megrims, spleen, horrors, hypochondriasis [Med.], pessimism; la maladie sans maladie [Fr.]; despondency, slough of Despond; disconsolateness etc. adj.; hope deferred, blank despondency; voiceless woe.    prostration of soul; broken heart; despair etc. 859; cave of despair, cave of Trophonius demureness etc. adj.; gravity, solemnity; long face, grave face.    hypochondriac, seek sorrow, self-tormentor, heautontimorumenos^†, malade imaginaire [Fr.], medecin tant pis [Fr.]; croaker, pessimist; mope, mopus^†.    [Cause of dejection] affliction etc. 830; sorry sight; memento mori [Lat.]; damper, wet blanket, Job's comforter.    ... meer laten zien

Any of several fishes that make a croaking noise.