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Discontented vs Regretful - What's the difference?

discontented | regretful |

As adjectives the difference between discontented and regretful

is that discontented is experiencing discontent, dissatisfaction while regretful is full of feelings of regret, indulging in regrets.

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.

    regretful

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Full of feelings of regret, indulging in regrets.
  • Sorrowful about what has been lost or done.
  • Synonyms

    * (full of regret) repining, rueful, sorrowful

    Derived terms

    * regretfully * regretfulness * unregretful

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