There are some words that stand out to me more than others ’cause they just strike me in a funny way. Today, for example, I read an article where someone was described as “disgruntled.”

That seems like a weird word to me. Usually when you put dis- in front of a word it means the opposite of the root word. The word disassembled, for instance, means it is not assembled. Disrespected is not respected.

So what the heck is disgruntled?