Whats the difference between dissatisfied and unsatisfied? A sense of incompleteness, which leaves one feeling unsatisfied A sense of wrongness, which leaves one feeling dissatisfied Naturally, both senses may overlap in certain situations Take the following example: John's father was unsatisfied by the principal's explanation of his son's injuries
single word requests - Term for constantly unsatisfied soul - English . . . Is there a single word or phrase which can describe a person who is always slightly unsatisfied? Update: To provide more context, This person is slightly unsatisfied with all things of life Does too much work and still thinks he is doing less Takes up a hobby and quickly lose interest wanting more
Why is dissatisfactorily not a word? - English Language Usage Stack . . . unsatisfied employees work unsatisfactorily but I think that changes the meaning significantly Unsatisfied is almost passive and invokes thoughts of disappointment, while dissatisfied describes disapproval So it makes sense to me that since one has an adverb so would the other
grammatical number - What is the plural of status quo? - English . . . Feeling "deeply unsatisfied" at this state of affairs and trying to analyze the components of such phrases quickly leads us to absurd places (like those jokers who insist the plural of octopus is octopi and such) And what "the plural" of status is in Latin depends on gender, declension, etc –
Whats a phrase for a compromise in which both sides are unhappy? @DawoodibnKareem A “split-the-baby negotiation” today is a real compromise Even in the original story, telling both women that they could get half of the baby was a putative compromise, just one so horrific that the arbitrator did not expect it to actually happen, and only proposed it to get the parties to back down from their intractable positions
idioms - English Language Usage Stack Exchange @FumbleFingers For example, an unsatisfied person is always looking for something better in life, which is not necessarily true in my case In my case, they just tend to ignore what they possess and pursue whatever is not in their pocket yet(not necessarily something good, and often hard to obtain) –
negation - Negative form of satisfy, correct usage of such . . . Similar to what @v kumar has linked, dissatisfied refers to a state where one is displeased, one's expectation is not met etc Unsatisfied usually means there has been some amount of satisfaction but not to the full extent One is left wanting for more Eg: I was dissatisfied at the speed of serving at the restaurant
Word for a desire that you can not do anything about I would use "yearning" In all examples I know, it has been used in the sense that it is a longing that carries the connotations of "intense", "unsatisfied", "never to be satisfied" or "very unlikely to be satisfied"