unsatisfied

adjectiveB2+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #10,363 of 15,258neutral

Unsatisfied means left wanting more than you were given. An unsatisfied customer, unsatisfied curiosity, left unsatisfied.

It is a different word from dissatisfied, which means actively displeased: somebody unsatisfied wanted more, and somebody dissatisfied objected to what they got. In law an unsatisfied judgment is one that has not been paid.

Definitions of unsatisfied

1adjectiveunsatisfiedLeft wanting more than you were given.B2+
“The tiny portion left me unsatisfied, so I stopped for chips on the way home.”

unsatisfied is a state.

Where it comes from

Middle English
satisfyed
English
satisfied
English, today
unsatisfied

From un- + satisfied. satisfied comes from Middle English satisfyed, from satisfien. From Middle English satisfyed, i-satisfyed, i-satisfied, past participle of Middle English satisfien, equivalent to satisfy + -ed.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

unsatisfied in the wild

GSAT makes the change which minimizes the number of unsatisfied clauses in the new assignment, or with some probability picks a variable at random.
WalkSAT
WalkSAT first picks a clause which is unsatisfied by the current assignment, then flips a variable within that clause.
WalkSAT
Revolving around the central lyric "I'm so unsatisfied," the song was largely fleshed out in the studio and featured improvised guitar lines from guitarist Bob Stinson.
Unsatisfied
Bruc ealles well!" Translation: "Hrothgar did not leave Beowulf unsatisfied.
Heorogar
Guthrie never completed the project and was unsatisfied by the result.
Ballads of Sacco & Vanzetti

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