dissatisfiedadjective
uk/ˌdɪsˈsæt.ɪs.faɪd/us/ˌdɪsˈsæt̬.əs.faɪd/B2 not pleased with something; feeling that something is not as good as it should be:
If you're dissatisfied with the service, why don't you complain to the hotel manager?
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- The manufacturers received thousands of complaints from dissatisfied customers.
- "Did he say he was dissatisfied with Anna's work?" "Not exactly, but that was the general impression I got."
- Were you dissatisfied with any aspect of the service you received at our restaurant today?
- He felt increasingly dissatisfied with his life as he approached middle age.
- The manager was dissatisfied with the quality of the goods and returned the entire batch.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Feeling sad and unhappy
- (down) in the dumps idiom
- a dog's life idiom
- a long face idiom
- abject
- be cut up idiom
- be down in the mouth idiom
- be in a funk idiom
- bruised
- dog
- doleful
- dour
- downhearted
- grieving
- miserably
- mope
- mope around (somewhere)
- morose
- mournful
- not be a happy camper idiom
- wretched
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dissatisfaction
noun [ U ] uk/dɪsˌsæt.ɪsˈfæk.ʃən/us/ˌdɪs.sæt̬.əsˈfæk.ʃən/
B2
At the moment she's experiencing a lot of dissatisfaction with her job.