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Disgruntled vs Discontented - What's the difference?

disgruntled | discontented |

As adjectives the difference between disgruntled and discontented

is that disgruntled is unhappy; dissatisfied while discontented is experiencing discontent, dissatisfaction.

As a verb disgruntled

is past tense of disgruntle.

disgruntled

English

Verb

(head)
  • (obsolete) (disgruntle)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Unhappy; dissatisfied
  • frustrated.

    • Related terms

    * disgruntlement

    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.