Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To fail to satisfy; disappoint.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To render discontented; displease; frustrate or come short of one's wishes or expectations.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To render unsatisfied or discontented; to excite uneasiness in by frustrating wishes or expectations; to displease by the want of something requisite.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To fail to satisfy.
  • verb To displease.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb fail to satisfy

Etymologies

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dis- +‎ satisfy

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Examples

  • We should empty our hearts, if its legends dissatisfy and lend a little ear to this man spelling out the interior, the temper and innate genius of nature.

    the leisure to walk about sweetly Jerry Ratch 2011

  • Of course I made it clever and brilliant and all that, with my little unanswerable slings at the state and my social paradoxes, and withal made it concrete enough to dissatisfy the average citizen.

    Local Color 2010

  • Glorifying only the highest performer will defeat or dissatisfy all of your other contributors, especially if the criteria are unclear or based on opinion.

    Make Yourself Unforgettable Dale Carnegie 2011

  • Whether you've read the book or are simply a fan of Mulligan, whether you love sci-fi and how it can tackle current and timeless issues in a fresh manner or just like well-crafted adult dramas, there's something in Never Let Me Go that is sure to dissatisfy you.

    Michael Giltz: Toronto Film Fest Days 1 And 2: Midnight Madness Michael Giltz 2010

  • Glorifying only the highest performer will defeat or dissatisfy all of your other contributors, especially if the criteria are unclear or based on opinion.

    Make Yourself Unforgettable Dale Carnegie 2011

  • I had my concerns at first when she was appointed, but there's been nothing there at all to dissatisfy me.

    Making Light: The New York Times gives Harold Ford, Jr. enough rope 2010

  • Give us something else that we can dissatisfy by ...

    CNN Transcript Nov 18, 2008 2008

  • This appeared to dissatisfy the young man in the dinner-jacket who seemed about to curse the Abbé but his anger took another form when he perceived me.

    Time Regained 2003

  • Epidem., a physician might answer to such as might find the metamorphosis indecent: Thus have I accoutred myself, not that I am proud of appearing in such a dress, but for the sake of my patient, whom alone I wholly design to please, and no wise offend or dissatisfy.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • Epidem., a physician might answer to such as might find the metamorphosis indecent: Thus have I accoutred myself, not that I am proud of appearing in such a dress, but for the sake of my patient, whom alone I wholly design to please, and no wise offend or dissatisfy.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

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