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adjective
- 1. angry or dissatisfied: "judges receive letters from disgruntled members of the public"
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unhappy, annoyed, and disappointed about something: A disgruntled former employee is being blamed for the explosion. disgruntled with The players were disgruntled with the umpire. Synonym. dissatisfied. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Feeling sad and unhappy. a long face idiom. abjection. angsty. be cut up idiom.
: unhappy and annoyed. a disgruntled employee. She led her sodden and disgruntled team back into the changing rooms, insisting that the practice had not been a waste of time, though without any real conviction in her voice. J. K. Rowling. … a $300,000 refund pool for disgruntled former customers … Kevin McGurk.
Disgruntled sounds like what it is — dissatisfied, grunting and grumbling. You could become a disgruntled employee if your boss swipes all your best ideas without giving you credit (or a raise). Disgruntled actually comes from gruntle, an old verb meaning, not so surprisingly, "to grunt."
Disgruntled definition: displeased and discontented; sulky; peevish. See examples of DISGRUNTLED used in a sentence.
If you are disgruntled, you are cross and dissatisfied because things have not happened the way that you wanted them to happen. Disgruntled employees recently called for his resignation. American English : disgruntled / dɪsˈgrʌntəld /
noun. Synonyms. alienate. disaffect. estrange. sour. See all Synonyms & Antonyms in Thesaurus. Examples of disgruntle in a Sentence. an employee, disgruntled by the restaurant owner's shabby treatment, turned him in to the IRS a crew disgruntled by a long voyage that provided no opportunity for recreation onshore.
unhappy, annoyed, and disappointed about something: A disgruntled former employee is being blamed for the explosion. disgruntled with The players were disgruntled with the umpire. Synonym. dissatisfied. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Feeling sad and unhappy. a long face idiom. abjection. angsty. be cut up idiom.
Definition of disgruntled adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Adj. 1. disgruntled - in a state of sulky dissatisfaction. dissatisfied. discontent, discontented - showing or experiencing dissatisfaction or restless longing; "saw many discontent faces in the room"; "was discontented with his position".
adjective. uk / dɪsˈɡrʌntld / us. Add to word list Add to word list. angry and upset: Disgruntled workers have decided to go on strike. (Definition of disgruntled from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Translations of disgruntled. in Chinese (Traditional) 不滿的, 不悅的… See more. in Chinese (Simplified) 不满的, 不悦的… See more.
