disaffected
adjective/ˌdɪsəˈfektɪd/
/ˌdɪsəˈfektɪd/
- no longer satisfied with your situation, organization, belief, etc. and therefore no longer supporting it
- Some disaffected members left to form a new party.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryDisaffected is used with these nouns:- youth
Word Originmid 17th cent.: past participle of disaffect, originally in the sense ‘dislike or disorder’ from dis- (expressing reversal) + affect ‘pretend to have or feel (something)’.Definitions on the go
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