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Disgust vs Discontented - What's the difference?

disgust | discontented |

As a verb disgust

is to cause an intense dislike for something.

As a noun disgust

is an intense dislike or loathing someone feels for something bad or nasty.

As an adjective discontented is

experiencing discontent, dissatisfaction.

disgust

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To cause an intense dislike for something.
  • It disgusts me, to see her chew with her mouth open.
  • * 1874 , (Marcus Clarke), (For the Term of His Natural Life) Chapter V
  • It is impossible to convey, in words, any idea of the hideous phantasmagoria of shifting limbs and faces which moved through the evil-smelling twilight of this terrible prison-house. Callot might have drawn it, Dante might have suggested it, but a minute attempt to describe its horrors would but disgust . There are depths in humanity which one cannot explore, as there are mephitic caverns into which one dare not penetrate.

    Noun

    (wikipedia disgust) (-)
  • An intense dislike or loathing someone feels for something bad or nasty.
  • With an air of disgust , she stormed out of the room.

    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.