as in dissatisfied
having a feeling that one has been wronged or thwarted in one's ambitions
he was becoming increasingly discontented with his dead-end job and his dead-end life
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as in displeased
to make discontented
the ongoing lack of decent food discontented and demoralized the soldiers in the rebel army
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Recent Examples of discontented
Pierre Lemieux,
Twin Cities,
12 Dec. 2025
Silverman also discusses the alliance between the tech right and discontented moderate Democrats in San Francisco, explaining their involvement in recall politics and the transactional nature of tech politics.
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Fiction Non Fiction,
Literary Hub,
20 Nov. 2025
Conor Murray,
Forbes.com,
11 June 2026
Humans are the only animals known to be discontented with natural selection.
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Tad Friend,
New Yorker,
4 Aug. 2025
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Adjective
Understandably, the discontented then demand laws — subsidies, tax preferences, affirmative action and other legal privileges — that favor their side.
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Pierre Lemieux,
Twin Cities,
12 Dec. 2025
Silverman also discusses the alliance between the tech right and discontented moderate Democrats in San Francisco, explaining their involvement in recall politics and the transactional nature of tech politics.
—
Fiction Non Fiction,
Literary Hub,
20 Nov. 2025
Verb
Claude has apparently sought to siphon users discontented with ChatGPT, unveiling an update in February that allows users to import their data from competitor AI chatbots.
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Conor Murray,
Forbes.com,
11 June 2026
Humans are the only animals known to be discontented with natural selection.
—
Tad Friend,
New Yorker,
4 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for discontented
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Gen Zers are even more dissatisfied with their opportunities, Blanchflower says, amid factors like underemployment, the Covid-19 pandemic, war, trade tariffs, artificial intelligence, automation and job-hugging.
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The shooter fled, but authorities said staffers recognized the assailant as Abdulkareem, a dissatisfied patient.
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Bad Bunny clearly saw something that displeased him on center court.
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Some customers on social media are understandably displeased by the news, with users on sites like Reddit promoting physical copies as the best way to permanently own media.
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But no one who delves into Duchamp can shake the feeling that erotic fixations and frustrated romantic love are at the core of his imaginative universe.
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Unemployment remains above 30%, making migrants easy political targets for frustrated communities and opportunistic actors.
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Others are annoyed that its ambiguous language will create confusion over how — or if — the state will enforce compliance.
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David goes on a tour of the past 250 years and is deeply annoyed by every facet of it.
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“Discontented.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/discontented. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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