discontented

What it means

1. Experiencing discontent, dissatisfaction.

   After her injury, Alice was a discontented woman.

2. Of or pertaining to discontent.

   He lived a discontented life.

   1 more example

   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

In a sentence

After her injury, Alice was a discontented woman.

Where it comes from

1. Proto-Indo-European*dwóh₁
2. Proto-Indo-European*trísinflu.
3. Proto-Indo-European*d(w)is-
4. Proto-Italic*dis-
5. Latindis-
6. Old Frenchdes-
7. Latindis-
8. Middle Englishdis-
9. Englishdis-
10. Englishcontented
11. Englishdiscontented

From dis- + contented.