Adjective: discontented
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more discontented |
| Superlative | most discontented |
Sample Sentences
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After her injury, Alice was a discontented woman.
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He lived a discontented life.
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Clara, like many self-willed and discontented persons, was really very apt, without knowing it, to do as other people told her, and to let her destiny be decided for her by intelligences much below her own. [1912, Cather, Wil[el]la Sibert (author), The Bohemian Girl, published 1912, archived from the original on 13 Jul 2020:]
Adjectives inflected like discontented
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
3. Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is-
4. Proto-Italic *dis-
5. Latin dis-
6. Old French des-bor.
7. ▲
8. Latin dis-bor.
9. Middle English dis-
10. English dis-
11. English contented
12. English discontented
13. From dis- + contented.