Dissatisfied

Definition: Dissatisfied

Dissatisfied

Adjective

1. In a state of sulky dissatisfaction.

Date "dissatisfied" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Synonym: Dissatisfied

Synonym: disgruntled (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Discontent	Adjective: discontented; dissatisfied; Verb: unsatisfied, ungratified; dissident; dissentient; malcontent, malcontented, exigent, exacting, hypercritical.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Dissatisfied

English words defined with "dissatisfied": Contentless ♦ discontent, displeasure ♦ hold ♦ Out of humor. (references)

Specialty definitions using "dissatisfied": Gay Girl ♦ Oculist ♦ Passenger, predicted percentage of dissatisfied ♦ Wedlock. (references)

Etymologies containing "dissatisfied": Dissatisfy. (references)

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	The Dissatisfied Cobbler (1922)
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Domain	Title
Books	Dissatisfied (reference) How Dissatisfied & Insecure Are British Workers? A Survey of Surveys 1999 (reference) The Dissatisfied Witch (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Dissatisfied Customers of Hallucination (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Author	Quotation
James Thomson	That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others.
Marcus T. Cicero	I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.
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Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	The assailants, dissatisfied doubtless with the effect of their fire, had not repeated it.
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	Tom awakened under his willow, and his mouth was parched and his body was wet with sweat, and his head was dissatisfied with his rest.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Finally, if a patient is dissatisfied with a physician or a physician's recommendations, he or she may wish to seek another opinion. (references)
		During the 1960s, PCP in pill form became widely abused, but the surge in illicit use receded rapidly as users became dissatisfied with the long delay between taking the drug and feeling its effects, and with the unpredictable and often violent behavior associated with its use. Powdered PCP - known as "ozone," "rocket fuel," "love boat," "hog," "embalming fluid," or "superweed" - appeared in the 1970s. In powdered form, the drug is sprinkled on marijuana, tobacco, or parsley, then smoked, and the onset of effects is rapid. (references)
Civil Liberties	Slovak Republic	The FJC is dissatisfied with the Government's failure to discuss compensation for property that belonged to Jewish families who no longer have living heirs. (references)
	Guatemala	Demonstrations were undertaken by: Coffee plantation workers calling for government assistance, fishermen denied beach access, indigenous communities dissatisfied with police and juridical services, high school students opposed to the national literacy campaign because they were being forced unwillingly to conduct after hours reading classes for adults with very little preparation and materials, and families of persons who disappeared during the conflict. (references)
Economic History	Haiti	A claimant dissatisfied by the ruling of the court cannot shift the dispute to international arbitration. (references)
Human Rights	Austria	In some cases, they have been dissatisfied with the information that the authorities have supplied in response to specific complaints. (references)
	Japan	A defendant who was dissatisfied with the decision of a trial court of first instance may, within the period prescribed by law, appeal to a higher court. (references)
	Congo	A survey of 2,000 persons conducted by the police in August and September indicated that, of the 81 percent who had contact with the police, more than 65 percent were dissatisfied with their treatment. (references)
Political Economy	Comoros	In August separatist soldiers, reportedly dissatisfied with pay and promotions, started protests that led to the overthrow of Abeid in Anjouan. (references)
	Kuwait	Members regularly require ministers to appear before the full Assembly for formal question sessions when they are dissatisfied with the Government's performance. (references)
Worker Rights	Pakistan	Despite the presence of labor representatives, unions generally are dissatisfied with the boards' findings. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Abraham Lincoln	1861-1865	In 'your' hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in 'mine', is the momentous issue of civil war.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Dissatisfied" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 71.29% of the time. "Dissatisfied" is used about 310 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past participle)	71.29%	221	20,297
Adjective (general or positive)	15.16%	47	49,740
Lexical Verb (past tense)	12.26%	38	55,818
Noun (proper)	1.29%	4	175,879
Total	100.00%	310	N/A

Expression using "dissatisfied": predicted percentage of dissatisfied. Additional references.
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The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "dissatisfied"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaans		ontevrede (discontented, displeased). (various references)

Albanian		i pakënaqur (disaffected, discontent, discontented, disgruntled, grouchy, ill natured, malcontent, non-content, uncontented, unsatisfied), i mërzitur (annoyed, blue, bored, creepy, disgruntled, down-hearted, fed up, gloomily, gloomy, long-spun, moldy, monotone, monotonous, mouldy, pained). (various references)

Arabic		‏مستاء (discontent, discontented, disgruntled, offended). (various references)

Bulgarian		недоволен (disaffected, discontent, discontented, disgruntled, ill-affected, malcontent, murmurous, non-content, peevish, querulous, uncontented). (various references)

Chinese		觖 , 慊 (ashamed, contented), 不滿 (discontented, resentful), 不满意 (Dissatisfy, Dissatisfying, unsatisfied). (various references)

Czech		nespokojený (disaffected, discontented, disgruntled, displeasing, dissatisfactory, malcontent, non-content, uncontented, unfulfilled, unhappy, unsatisfied). (various references)

Danish		utilfreds (discontented, displeased). (various references)

Dutch		wrevelig (discontented, displeased), ontevreden (discontented, displeased), misnoegd (discontented, displeased). (various references)

Faeroese		misnøgdur (discontented, displeased). (various references)

Finnish		tyytymätön (discontented, disgruntled, displeased). (various references)

French		mécontent (disaffected, discontent, discontented, disgruntled, displeased). (various references)

German		unzufrieden (disaffected, discontent, discontented, displeased, malcontent, malcontently, uncontent, unhappy, unsatisfied), frustriert (frustrated, frustrates). (various references)

Greek		δυσαρεστημένοσ (disaffected, discontented, malcontent). (various references)

Hungarian		elégedetlen (be disgruntled, disaffected, discontent, discontented, disgruntled, grumbler, ill-affected, malcontent, to dislike). (various references)

Icelandic		óánægður (discontented, displeased). (various references)

Indonesian		tombak (javelin, pike, spear), tidak puas (discontented). (various references)

Italian		malcontento (disaffected, discontent, disgruntled, displeasure, dissatisfaction, malcontent). (various references)

Korean		많족하지 않�". (various references)

Manx		meewooiagh. (various references)

Norwegian		misfornøyd (discontented, displeased). (various references)

Papiamen		malkontentu (discontented, displeased), malkontento (discontented, displeased). (various references)

Pig Latin		issatisfiedday

Portuguese		defeituoso (Amiss, defective, deficient, faulty, imperfection, unsatisfactory, unsound), insatisfeito (dissatisfactory, fretful, inscribe, unsatisfied). (various references)

Romanian		nemulţumit (disaffected, discontent, discontented, disgruntled, grumbler, malcontent, malcontented). (various references)

Russian		неудовлетворенный (uncontented, unsatisfied). (various references)

Scottish		talaich (be dissatisfied, murmur). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		nezadovoljan (disaffected, discontented, disgruntled, displeased, malcontent, uncontented, unhappy, unsatisfied). (various references)

Spanish		insatisfecho (unsatisfied). (various references)

Swedish		missnöjd (be disgruntled, disaffected, discontent, discontented, disgruntled, displeased, dissatisfy, malcontent, non-content). (various references)

Turkish		tatminsiz (malcontent, unsatisfied), memnuniyetsiz (discontented, ill-pleased), hoşnutsuz (averse, disaffected, discontented, disgruntled, displeased, frowning, grumbling, ill-pleased, malcontent, repining, ungratified). (various references)

Turkmen		nдrazy, nдgile (discontented, displeased). (various references)

Ukrainian		незадоволений (disaffected, discontent, non-content, sour, unsatisfied). (various references)

Vietnamese		không thoả mãn (ungratified), không h� i lòng (ungratified), không bằng lòng (disaffected, disgruntled, unconsenting, unwilling, unwillingly), bất mãn (disaffection). (various references)

Welsh		anfoddog (discontented, unwilling). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Dissatisfied" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dissastisfied, dissatisfier, dissatisified, disssatisfied. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "dissatisfied" (pronounced di'sa"tusfī'd)
8	-s a" t u s f ī' d	satisfied, unsatisfied.
3	-f ī' d	acidified, amplified, calcified, certified, clarified, classified, codified, crucified, decertified, Declassified, dignified, disqualified, diversified, electrified, exemplified, falsified, fortified, gentrified, glorified, gratified, horrified, identified, indemnified, intensified, justified, liquefied, magnified, misidentified, modified, mollified, mortified, mummified, mystified, notified, nullified, ossified, overqualified, oversimplified, pacified, personified, petrified, purified, qualified, quantified, ratified, reclassified, rectified, reunified, signified, simplified, solidified, specified, stratified, sulfide, terrified, testified, typified, unclassified, undignified, unidentified, unified, unjustified, unqualified, unspecified, unverified, verified.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-f-i-i-i-s-s-s-t"
	-3 letters: satisfied, satisfies, sissified.
	-4 letters: assisted, disseats, faddiest, faddists, fideists.
	-5 letters: daisied, daisies, dassies, desists, disseat, faddist, fideist, fiestas, fissate, saddest, sadists, siestas, tassies.
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