Meanings
comparative more unsatisfied · superlative most unsatisfied
- Not satisfied, especially with the quantity of something; dissatisfied; uncontented.
- Not gratified; not having been fulfilled or met.
I made no answer, for I could not - especially before Leo - tell her that since I had seen her face I knew that it would always be before my eyes, and that I had no wish to prolong an existence which must always be haunted and tortured by her memory, and by the last bitterness of unsatisfied love.
1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivenot having been satisfied
adjectiveworried and uneasy
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Germanic*un-
- Proto-West Germanic*un-
- Old Englishun-
- Middle Englishun-
- Englishun-
- Middle Englishsatisfien
- Middle Englishsatisfyed
- Englishsatisfied
- Englishunsatisfied
Cite this entry
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