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dissatisfied, ppl. a.|dɪsˈsætɪsfaɪd|
[f. dissatisfy + -ed1.]
Deprived of satisfaction; displeased; disquieted by the feeling of the insufficiency or inadequacy of something.
1675tr. Camden's Hist. Eliz. an. 1599 [Essex] himself also was very much dissatisfied and displeased that the queen had..conferred on Sir Robert Cecyl the gainfull office of master of the wards. 1680in Hacke Collect. Voy. ii. (1699) 15 Very grateful to our dissatisfied Minds. a1704T. Brown Two Oxf. Scholars Wks. (1730) I. 2 Infinitely dissatisfy'd with several things in the Church of England. 1827Lytton Pelham v, I had no reason to be dissatisfied with my success. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) III. 227 Glaucon..was dissatisfied at Thrasymachus' retirement.
b. Exhibiting or expressing dissatisfaction.
1800E. Hervey Mourtray Fam. IV. 192 Lord Miramont's dissatisfied looks, and sullen silence. 1842Barham Ingol. Leg., Row in Omnibus, With a gloomy brow and dissatisfied air. 1883O'Donovan Merv xxiv. 298 The horses were standing around in dissatisfied silence.
Hence disˈsatisfiedly adv., in a dissatisfied manner, with dissatisfaction; disˈsatisfiedness, the condition of being dissatisfied, dissatisfaction.
1710R. Ward Life of H. More 147 Seasons of Perplexity and Dissatisfiedness. 1805E. Inchbald To Marry, or not in Br. Theatre 3, Hester. Oh Madam..forgive this intrusion..Mrs. M. My dear, I must forgive all you do. (Dissatisfiedly.) 1880R. Broughton Sec. Th. I. viii, She remains dissatisfiedly mute. |