disaffected

adjective

dis·​af·​fect·​ed ˌdis-ə-ˈfek-təd 

: discontented and resentful especially against authority : rebellious

disaffected youth

Examples of disaffected in a Sentence

The troops had become disaffected.

Both political parties are looking for ways to regain the trust of disaffected voters.

Recent Examples on the Web

The project is described as a supernatural home invasion horror-thriller about a disaffected teenage girl who must team up with a renegade witch to protect her little sister from a murderous coven hellbent on using her as a human sacrifice in an apocalyptic ritual on Halloween night. —Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 22 Oct. 2025

This alienated moderates within his party but electrified disaffected voters. —Nafees Alam, Twin Cities, 22 Oct. 2025

This alienated moderates within his party but electrified disaffected voters. —Nafees Alam, Boston Herald, 18 Oct. 2025

His cultural critiques were unmistakably right-wing, but his scorn for the corporatization of universities might have come from the mouth of a disaffected leftist. —Emma Green, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1602, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for disaffected

• disconnected
• disinfected
• interjected
• intersected
• misdirected
• preselected
• recollected
• reconnected
• redirected
• reelected
• resurrected
• unaffected