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Definitions for disaffected
ˌdɪs əˈfɛk tɪddis·af·fect·ed

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. disaffected, ill-affected, malcontent, rebelliousadjective

    discontented as toward authority

Wiktionary

  1. disaffectedadjective

    Alienated or estranged, often with hostile effect; rebellious, resentful; disloyal.

  2. disaffectedadjective

    Affected with disease.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Disaffectedpart. adj.

    Not disposed to zeal or affection. Usually applied to those who are enemies to the government.

    Etymology: from disaffect.

    By denying civil worship to the emperor’s statues, which the custom then was to give, they were proceeded against as disaffected to the emperor. Edward Stillingfleet, Def. of Dis. on Ro. Idol.

Wikipedia

  1. Disaffected

    Disaffected is the eighth album by Piano Magic.

ChatGPT

  1. disaffected

    Disaffected refers to a person or group that is dissatisfied, resentful or rebellious, typically towards an authority, institution, or a specific situation, often as the result of feeling estranged or alienated.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Disaffected

    of Disaffect

  2. Disaffectedadjective

    alienated in feeling; not wholly loyal

Wikidata

  1. Disaffected

    Disaffected is the eighth album by Piano Magic.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of disaffected in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of disaffected in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of disaffected in a Sentence

  1. Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay:

    A church is disaffected when it is persecuted, quiet when it is tolerated, and actively loyal when it is favored and cherished.

  2. Amy Walter:

    The only hope Republican Congressional candidates have is that, as we get close to the election, Donald Trump is able to win back some of those disaffected Republicans.

  3. Harmeet Dhillon:

    I began to see it in our cities with the Occupy Wall Street movement, during economic downturns, you began to see disaffected people targeting corporations as their enemy. And you had weak Democrat leaders in cities putting up with it because this rhetoric was at the fringes of the…Democratic Party and they didn't want to turn off their voters, supposedly.

  4. Ben Carson:

    There's no question that they use anything that they can against us, they use anything that they can possibly get their hands on to try to make their case and particularly to go after the disaffected people of the world, and what we need to be thinking about is how do we give them a different message -- disaffected ones -- so that they won't be so attracted to those kinds of messages?

  5. Attorney Mark Naugle:

    The fact that it affects children really upset people, most people are disaffected from the church already, and this was the final straw.

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