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Disappointed vs Discontented - What's the difference?

disappointed | discontented |

As adjectives the difference between disappointed and discontented

is that disappointed is defeated of expectation or hope; let down while discontented is experiencing discontent, dissatisfaction.

As a verb disappointed

is past tense of disappoint.

disappointed

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Defeated of expectation or hope; let down.
  • * , chapter=3
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=My hopes wa'n't disappointed . I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.}}

    Synonyms

    * discomfited * foiled * frustrated * thwarted

    Verb

    (head)
  • (disappoint)

    • discontented

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Experiencing discontent, dissatisfaction.
    • After her injury, Alice was a discontented woman.
  • Of or pertaining to discontent.
    • He lived a discontented life.
  • * 1912 , :
    • 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.