Showing or experiencing dissatisfaction or restless longing:
— Was discontented with his position.

synonym: discontent.

Roget 832: discontented; dissatisfied etc. v.; unsatisfied, ungratified; dissident; dissentient etc. 489; malcontent, malcontented, exigent, exacting, hypercritical.    repining etc. v.; regretful etc. 833; down in the mouth etc. (dejected) 837.    in high dudgeon, in a fume, in the sulks, in the dumps, in bad humor; glum, sulky; sour as a crab; soured, sore; out of humor, out of temper.    disappointing etc. v.; unsatisfactory.    frustrated (failure) 732.    ... show more

Roget 489: dissenting etc. v.; negative etc. 536; dissident, dissentient; unconsenting etc. (refusing) 764; non-content, nonjuring^†; protestant, recusant; unconvinced, unconverted.    unavowed, unacknowledged; out of the question.    discontented etc. 832; unwilling etc. 603; extorted.    sectarian, denominational, schismatic; heterodox; intolerant.    ... show more

Roget 828: in pain, in a state of pain, full of pain etc. n.; suffering etc. v.; pained, afflicted, worried, displeased etc. 830; aching, griped, sore etc. (physical pain) 378; on the rack, in limbo; between hawk and buzzard.    uncomfortable, uneasy; ill at ease; in a taking, in a way; disturbed; discontented etc. 832; out of humor etc. 901.1; weary etc. 841.    heavy laden, stricken, crushed, a prey to, victimized, ill-used.    unfortunate etc. (hapless) 735; to be pitied, doomed, devoted, accursed, undone, lost, stranded; fey.    unhappy, infelicitous, poor, wretched, miserable, woe-begone; cheerless etc. (dejected) 837; careworn.    concerned, sorry; sorrowing, sorrowful; cut up, chagrined, horrified, horror-stricken; in grief, plunged in grief, a prey to grief etc. n.; in tears etc. (lamenting) 839; steeped to the lips in misery; heart-stricken, heart-broken, heart-scalded; broken-hearted; in despair etc. 859.    ... show more