DISCONTENTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does discontented mean? 

• DISCONTENTED (adjective)
  The adjective DISCONTENTED has 1 sense:

1. showing or experiencing dissatisfaction or restless longing

  Familiarity information: DISCONTENTED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISCONTENTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Showing or experiencing dissatisfaction or restless longing

Synonyms:

discontent; discontented

Context example:

was discontented with his position

Similar:

disaffected; ill-affected; malcontent; rebellious (discontented as toward authority)

disgruntled; dissatisfied (in a state of sulky dissatisfaction)

restless; ungratified; unsatisfied (worried and uneasy)

Also:

unhappy (experiencing or marked by or causing sadness or sorrow or discontent)

displeased (not pleased; experiencing or manifesting displeasure)

Antonym:

contented (satisfied or showing satisfaction with things as they are)

Derivation:

discontentedness (a longing for something better than the present situation)

 Context examples 

Maria was just discontented enough to say directly, I think you have done pretty well yourself, ma'am.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Mrs. March had consented to the visit rather reluctantly, fearing that Margaret would come back more discontented than she went.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

When she was discontented, she fancied herself nervous.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

“There's an account about the people being hungry and discontented down in the North, but they are always being hungry and discontented somewhere.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Many, no doubt; and I shall be called discontented.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

In spite of the intense labour and wonderful discoveries of modern philosophers, I always came from my studies discontented and unsatisfied.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

On the other hand, it was furnished with the neatness and taste which belonged to his character, so that his most luxurious friends found something in the tiny rooms which made them discontented with their own sumptuous mansions.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Yes, I preferred the elderly and discontented doctor, surrounded by friends and cherishing honest hopes; and bade a resolute farewell to the liberty, the comparative youth, the light step, leaping impulses and secret pleasures, that I had enjoyed in the disguise of Hyde.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Thus N, shall signify a plot; B, a regiment of horse; L, a fleet at sea; or, secondly, by transposing the letters of the alphabet in any suspected paper, they can lay open the deepest designs of a discontented party.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

She was previously disposed, I believe, to doubt the morality of my conduct in general, and was moreover discontented with the very little attention, the very little portion of my time that I had bestowed on her, in my present visit.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)