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Definition: Unsatisfied |
UnsatisfiedAdjective1. Not having been satisfied. 2. Worried and uneasy. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "unsatisfied" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Synonyms: UnsatisfiedSynonyms: restless (adj), ungratified (adj), unsated (adj), unsatiated (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Desire | Unsatisfied, unsated, unslaked; unsaturated. |
Discontent | Adjective: discontented; dissatisfied; Verb: unsatisfied, ungratified; dissident; dissentient; malcontent, malcontented, exigent, exacting, hypercritical. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Unsatisfied |
| English words defined with "unsatisfied": desire ♦ Judgment summons. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "unsatisfied": Corkscrew ♦ dangling bonds, deficiency judgment ♦ Free Radicals ♦ Notary ♦ reckless bankruptcy and reduction of assets ♦ Silver. (references) |
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Lyrics | Unsatisfied, I skip my pride (Lay All Your Love On Me; performing artist: Abba) Live to die unsatisfied (Manic Demise; performing artist: The Creation) | |
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Charles Burney | Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear, which remains unsatisfied, and even uneasy, until it hears something better. |
Oscar Wilde | A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want? |
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Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | They may be charged in the second place with payment of the amounts due in respect of claims by the nationals of such Allied or Associated Power with regard to their property, rights and interests in the territory of other enemy Powers, in so far as those claims are otherwise unsatisfied. (reference) |
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Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | They represent the stark twilight and unsatisfied thoughts which all have. |
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Business | Products in the special products list may be imported if the buyer is unsatisfied with the domestic source or product. (references) | |
Some providers tried to use PSTN exchange equipment produced in St. Petersburg, but were totally unsatisfied with quality and technical features. (references) | ||
In Sub-Sahara Africa, the Ivoirian market remains the most important one after Nigeria and South Africa, absorbing other neighboring countries' unsatisfied supply, especially for used automobiles. (references) | ||
Economic History | Honduras | Franchising in Honduras has come to meet consumer needs, often long unsatisfied. (references) |
India | In India, both domestic and international companies can view unsatisfied demand and relatively higher gas price as stimulants for CBM exploration and development. (references) | |
Bermuda | Unsatisfied aspirations, particularly among young blacks, led to a brief civil disturbance in December 1977, following the execution of two men found guilty of the 1972-73 assassinations of Governor Sir Richard Sharples and four others. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Unsatisfied" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unsatisfied" is used about 93 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 93 | 34,067 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "unsatisfied": unsatisfied with. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
the unsatisfied | 5 |
nine day so happily unsatisfied | 3 |
happily so unsatisfied | 3 |
customer unsatisfied | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "unsatisfied"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i pakënaqur (disaffected, discontent, discontented, disgruntled, dissatisfied, grouchy, ill natured, malcontent, non-content, uncontented). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | غير مقنع (inconclusive, unconversable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | незадоволен (discontented, unappeased). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 歁 , 不满意 (Dissatisfied, Dissatisfy, Dissatisfying). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | neuspokojený, neukojený, nespokojený (disaffected, discontented, disgruntled, displeasing, dissatisfactory, dissatisfied, malcontent, non-content, uncontented, unfulfilled, unhappy), frustrovaný (frustrated, unfulfilled). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | tyydyttämätön (insatiable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | insatisfait. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | unbefriedigt (dissatisfied, unappeased, unfulfilled, unsatisfiedly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ανικανοποίητοσ (unappeased, unsatisfying). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kielégítetlen (frustrated, unappeased, unquenched). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | tak puas (disgruntled). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | insoddisfatto (disappointed, dissatisfied, unfulfilled). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 物足りない (unsatisfactory). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ものたりない (unsatisfactory). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | atisfiedunsay não saldado, não saciado, não liquidado, não convencido, insatisfeito (dissatisfactory, dissatisfied, fretful, insatiate), descontente (acidulated, disaffected, discontent, discontented, disgruntled, dissatisfactory, impatient, malcontent, snuffy, sorehead). (various references) nesaturat (unsaturated), nemulţumit de (discontent with), neconvins, neachitat (outstanding, unpaid). (various references) неудовлетворенный (dissatisfied, uncontented). (various references) nezadovoljen (unfilled), nezadovoljan (disaffected, discontented, disgruntled, displeased, dissatisfied, malcontent, uncontented, unhappy), neudovoljen. (various references) insatisfecho (dissatisfied). (various references) otillfredsställd (dissatisfied). (various references) yetersiz (defective, deficient, disqualified, exiguous, half-way, handicapped, inadequate, incapable, incommensurate, incompetent, inconclusive, inefficient, ineligible, insufficient, meager, meagre, poorly, powerless, scant, scanty, scrimp, scrimpy, shoestring, short, skimp, skimpy, slender, slim, spare, unequal, unfit, unqualified, unsatisfactory, unsatisfying), yerine getirilmemiş (outstanding, unfilled, unfulfilled, unperformed, unredeemed), tatminsiz (dissatisfied, malcontent), tatmin olmamış, ödenmemiş (back, dishonoured, outstanding, owing, undischarged, unhonored, unhonoured, unpaid, unredeemed, unsettled). (various references) незадоволений (disaffected, discontent, dissatisfied, non-content, sour). (various references) không được tho m n, chưa phỉ, chưa h chưa tin chắc, còn ngờ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "unsatisfied" (pronounced unsa"tusfī'd) |
| 8 | -s a" t u s f ī' d | dissatisfied, satisfied. |
| 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-e-f-i-i-n-s-s-t-u" | |
-2 letters: disinfest, disunites, finitudes, sanitised, satisfied, sustained. | |
-3 letters: adenitis, audients, daftness, dainties, destains, distains, disunite, feudists, fideists, finitude, fustians, insisted, isatines, nudities, sandiest, sanities, sanitise, sinuated, sinuates, teniasis, tidiness, unsifted, untidies. | |
-4 letters: audient, aunties, daisies, dauties, defiant, destain, detains, disseat, dissent, distain, dunites, entasis, fadeins, fainest, fainted, fastens, fatness, feudist, fideist, fiestas, finises, finites. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-f-i-i-n-s-s-t-u" | |
+3 letters: fastidiousness. | |
+4 letters: subinfeudations. | |
+5 letters: desulfurizations, fastidiousnesses. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 6E 73 61 74 69 73 66 69 65 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. ... .- - .. ... ..-. .. . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01110011 01100001 01110100 01101001 01110011 01100110 01101001 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n s a t i s f i e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 0073 0061 0074 0069 0073 0066 0069 0065 0064 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5580856786758572757170 |
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