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Discontented vs Malcontented - What's the difference?

discontented | malcontented |

As adjectives the difference between discontented and malcontented

is that discontented is experiencing discontent, dissatisfaction while malcontented is malcontent.

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.

    malcontented

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • malcontent
  • Derived terms

    * malcontentedly * malcontentedness