discontented
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4.3
- adjective
- /ˌdɪskənˈtɛndɪd/
:
descontento
- Many workers were discontented with their salaries and demanded higher pay.
It made me feel anxious, made me feel overwhelmed, made me feel discontented.
- It made me feel anxious, made me feel overwhelmed, made me feel discontented.
- If any person alive is discontented with his rewards, he should examine his service, action, reaction.
- Because if you're moderately discontented with your job, you're going to constantly be justifying it to yourself going, it's all right, it'll get better.
Examples
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Steps need to be taken to deflect discontented elements in the population from resorting to violence again.
Academic text (2003) -
Otherwise, you'll always be unhappy and discontented.
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And was constantly in conflict with his discontented workers.
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And there was a difficult, demanding, discontented kind of friendship between us.
Fiction book (1993) -
If any person alive is discontented with his rewards, he should examine his service, Action, reaction.
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Do these discontented concertgoers have a point?
Academic text (2010) -
To explain this, Murdoch tells the story of a discontented mother-in-law.
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I think that we are more stressed and discontented today than ever before, because we know so much more, or we think we know so much more, about what's going on inside of the house of our neighbors and our friends.
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Many provinces populated by discontented ethnic groups are located in territories adjacent to national capitals, not overseas.
Academic text (2008) -
Erbakan appealed to discontented, Anatolian-based business organizations unable to compete with their state-supported Istanbul counterparts.
Academic text (2000)
Synonyms
463
1.0
Feeling sad or not pleased about something
68
6.5
Unhappy and annoyed because you feel unfairly treated or disappointed
44
3.2
Not happy because something does not meet your expectations
20
3.7
Feeling unhappy because you did not get what you wanted
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3.7
Not happy and a little annoyed
1
7.7
Unhappy with people in charge or the way things are
1
5.3
Not satisfied with the present situation
Not happy with something
Antonyms
How Dissatisfied
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Discontented is made from dis- meaning 'not' and content meaning 'satisfied' or 'happy with what you have'. So, discontented means 'not satisfied' with your situation and feeling unhappy about it.