Meaning | showing or experiencing dissatisfaction or restless longing. |
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Example | "was discontented with his position" |
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Synonym | discontent |
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Narrower | disaffected, ill-affected, malcontent, rebellious | discontented as toward authority |
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disgruntled, dissatisfied | In a state of sulky dissatisfaction |
restless, ungratified, unsatisfied | Worried and uneasy |
See also | displeased | not pleased |
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unhappy | Experiencing or marked by or causing sadness or sorrow or discontent |
Opposite | contented, content | satisfied or showing satisfaction with things as they are |
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Spanish | descontento |
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Nouns | discontentedness | a longing for something better than the present situation |
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Adverbs | discontentedly | with discontent |
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