adjective
definition
Feeling or displaying disappointment or a lack of contentment.
definition
Not satisfied (e.g. with the quality of something).
example
We offer refunds to dissatisfied customers.
verb
definition
To fail to satisfy; to displease.
Examples of dissatisfied in a Sentence
The Emperor was dissatisfied with him.
The army, at the end of the war, was justly dissatisfied with its treatment.
Pierre began to feel dissatisfied with what he was doing.
The troops were dissatisfied, and, being kept without pay and on short rations, took to plundering.
They all seemed dissatisfied and uneasy.
Denisov, now a general on the retired list and much dissatisfied with the present state of affairs, had arrived during that fortnight.
His restless and dissatisfied nature led him to press or intrigue for other posts, and to embark in risky business enterprises which compromised the fortune of his family for many years to come.
He had long been dissatisfied with his position; He was much embarrassed by the failure of his ecclesiastical policy.
Many Boers, dissatisfied with this arrangement, withdrew beyond the Drakensberg.
The officers, his comrades, like most of the army, were dissatisfied with the peace concluded after the battle of Friedland.
They all appeared angry and dissatisfied.
But Sprengtporten was still dissatisfied.
Both women are smart and well spoken but each seems vaguely dissatisfied with their life.
The convener refused her request on 14 June 1999; Mrs A remains dissatisfied.
However, I continue to feel dissatisfied with the solutions posed.
Four women were very satisfied with treatment, 11 were satisfied, 2 were uncertain, and 3 were dissatisfied at 12-month follow-up.
Denisov, dissatisfied with the government on account of his own disappointments in the service, heard with pleasure of the things done in Petersburg which seemed to him stupid, and made forcible and sharp comments on what Pierre told them.
Stressed out employees are dissatisfied with their work and less likely to take extra steps to do their best.
The strongholds of these heretical opinions were the great towns, the centres of civilization, because there the growing sentiment of municipal independence, and the rise of a burgher class through commerce, created a spirit of criticism which was dissatisfied with the worldly lives of the clergy and their undue influence in affairs.
The people of Nova Scotia in particular, dissatisfied with the way in which their province had been drawn into the Union, maintained a fierce opposition to the Ottawa government, until their leader, Joseph Howe, fearing an armed rising, came to an agreement with Macdonald and accepted a seat in his cabinet.
The German people seemed to have lost both the power aijd the will to assert their rights; but in reality they were deeply dissatisfied.
With the aid of dissatisfied barons, Adrian brought William I.
Where, following such a second marking, the student is still dissatisfied, he/she should contact the Registrar for advice.
Dorothy Kilner herself, usually so reserved, pronounced herself totally dissatisfied with the current state of children's literature.
He had grown dissatisfied, having realized every conceivable desire that the mortal world could offer.
Just because someone does not write or phone in to complain does not mean that they haven't left dissatisfied.
From the pretense of illness, from his daughter's distress, and by the embarrassed faces of Sonya and Marya Dmitrievna, the count saw clearly that something had gone wrong during his absence, but it was so terrible for him to think that anything disgraceful had happened to his beloved daughter, and he so prized his own cheerful tranquillity, that he avoided inquiries and tried to assure himself that nothing particularly had happened; and he was only dissatisfied that her indisposition delayed their return to the country.
If they are dissatisfied, they have not only lost money, but have also accumulated an excessive amount of bottles and jars on the bathroom counter.
On the other hand, sixty-one percent of dissatisfied workers consider their jobs to be stressful.
Fawcett was dissatisfied with Charlie's Angels and left the show after the first season even though she was contracted to do the series for another year.
After his success of Footloose Bacon became dissatisfied with his film offers, feeling as though he was getting typecast.
While this option is more expensive, it can be worth it if you have been dissatisfied elsewhere and want to try something different.
You can go lower if you were dissatisfied.
Timid by nature, aware of his impending doom, and ax times justly dissatisfied with himself, he tries all means of reconciling himself to the idea of suicide.
His ministry was overturned in 188.2 by the votes of the new Thessalian deputies, who were dissatisfied with the administrative arrangements of the new province, and he died at Athens on the 9th of March 1883.
Disenchanted and dissatisfied, Gotama had given up all that most men value, to seek peace in secluded study and self-denial.
He was one of a number of Newton's friends who began to be uneasy and dissatisfied at seeing the most eminent scientific man of his age left to depend upon the meagre emoluments of a college fellowship and a professorship.
As Charles would not dismiss him simply because the Commons were dissatisfied with him as a minister, they fell back on charging him with criminal designs.
Pynchon, who had been one of the original patentees of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, was dissatisfied with the government of Roxbury, of which he had been a founder.
At the same time, however, he followed with interest the discoveries of Galileo and Kepler, and became more and more dissatisfied with the Peripatetic system.
Dissatisfied with her own intellectual attainments she went in 1839 to Berlin, where she took lessons in German, Greek and Hebrew.
He soon rose to the rank of lieutenantcolonel, but in April 1645, having become dissatisfied with the predominance of Presbyterianism, and refusing to take the covenant, he resigned his commission, presenting at the same time to the Commons a petition for considerable arrears of pay.
In such circumstances, the union should advise any dissatisfied member who asks the union for legal assistance to seek independent legal advice.
Ways to complain Editors should respond promptly to complaints and should ensure that there is a way for dissatisfied complainants to take complaints further.
The two elder sisters came to terms with their situation but the youngest one never did and became a dissatisfied spinster.
They could see the lonely watcher fingering his gun, and peering down at them as if dissatisfied at their reply.
Thenceforth he became the rallying point of a large number of men dissatisfied with the new administration, and in 1877 he headed a rebellion which taxed all the resources of the central government.
Still they fell far short of the requirements of the district for in 1865 the Taff Vale Railway Company opened a dock of 26 acres under the headland at Penarth, while in 1884 a group of colliery owners, dissatisfied with their treatment at Cardiff, obtained powers to construct docks at Barry which are now 114 acres in extent.
Dissatisfied with the Aristotelianism of his time, Paracelsus turned with greater expectation to the Neoplatonism which was reviving.
Meanwhile, at Rome, Silvester Mazzolini of Prierio, a Dominican monk and Inquisitor, had been studying the Theses, was profoundly dissatisfied with them, and wrote a Dialogue about the Power of the Pope, against the presumptuous conclusions of Martin Luther.