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If you are discontented, you are not satisfied with your situation. You may still go to work and still smile, but something is off and you wish it were different. Milder and more everyday than : a discontented employee is unhappy with the job, not . Often followed by with: discontented with the food, the pay, the plan. It can also be the -ed form of the verb discontent, but you will almost always meet it as this adjective. Formal enough for reports; still fine in careful speech.
不滿的
組成dis- (the opposite / taking away) + contented (satisfied).
同家族的字
- contentedfeeling satisfied; this is dis- plus that
- contentthe positive base meaning satisfied
- discontentthe noun (and less common verb) for this feeling
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
discontentedadj/ˌdɪskənˈtɛntɛd/
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Experiencing discontent, dissatisfaction.
- After her injury, Alice was a discontented woman.
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Of or pertaining to discontent.
- He lived a discontented life.
- 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.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。