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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unsatisfied
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
demand
▪ There is a huge unsatisfied demand for such mortgages from borrowers, as Standard Life discovered.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But everyone knew, even then, about unsatisfied or sublimated or postponed desires: the final step must be action.
▪ But other men, who remain unsatisfied, continue to grow step by step to new levels.
▪ Convinced that the general public had an unsatisfied thirst for knowledge, he took an active part in several educational activities.
▪ I have a nagging sense of being unsatisfied with my behaviour, as though I was doing something morally wrong.
▪ One of my few remaining unsatisfied ambitions is to get into the old man's study.
▪ So the Nash Ensemble's concert offered a first half of Mozart and Brahms which left one feeling vaguely unsatisfied.
▪ The compromise left all sides unsatisfied.
▪ There is a huge unsatisfied demand for such mortgages from borrowers, as Standard Life discovered.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unsatisfied

early 15c., from un- (1) "not" + satisfied (adj.).

Wiktionary
unsatisfied

a. Not satisfied, especially with the quantity of something

WordNet
unsatisfied
  1. adj. not having been satisfied [syn: unsated, unsatiated]

  2. worried and uneasy [syn: restless, ungratified]

Wikipedia
Unsatisfied

Unsatisfied may refer to:

  • "Unsatisfied", a song by The Copyrights from Make Sound
  • "Unsatisfied", a song by Waylon Jennings from Good Hearted Woman
  • "Unsatisfied", a song by Nine Black Alps from Everything Is
  • "Unsatisfied", a song by Pulling Teeth from Paranoid Delusions/Paradise Illusions
  • "Unsatisfied", a song by The Replacements from Let It Be (The Replacements album)

Usage examples of "unsatisfied".

I could find a woman with an unsatisfied craving for cracknels, I should marry her.

II When through hot fog the fulgid sun looks down Upon a stagnant earth where listless men Laboriously dawdle, curse, and sweat, Disqualified, unsatisfied, inert, -- It seems to me somehow that God himself Scans with a close reproach what I have done, Counts with an unphrased patience my arrears, And fathoms my unprofitable thoughts.

At last, full of unsatisfied desire, she shewed me all the treasures which nature had given her, just as I had finished with Annette for the fourth time.

When the osprey comes skirting the hollows of the hills for cockatoos, its hunger will be unsatisfied until, by elaborate and disdainful manoeuvres, the cockatoos are induced to take flight.

With its focus on physiology rather than the holistic sexual landscape, Viagra continues to subordinate female sexuality to a phallocentric model, creating yet another reason for women to feel responsible, unsexy, inadequate, and guilty, rather than fed up and underserved, when their penis-pill-popping partners leave them unsatisfied.

This was what I had been saying to myself hour by hour for two years, but there were times when it seemed that my brain, my whole system, was collapsing in the nervous irritation, in the chafing and the straining of this existence, which was filled with nothing but successless work, continuous disappointment, and unsatisfied desires.

The art of the perfumer which, like all crude art, thrives upon blatancy, does not make us go to gardens, or love the rose, but often instils in us a kind of artificiality, so that perfumes, so far from being an inspiration to us, increasing our lives, become often the badge of the abnormal, used by those unsatisfied with simple, clean, natural things.

Equally satisfied, equally unsatisfied, they parted, and while Reginald went first to his office and then to Brighton, Sheldrake went straight by car to Rivington Court.

In uncouthness of form it outdoes those obsolete old brutes who used to roam about the semi-aqueous world, and live a most uncomfortable life with their great hungering stomachs and huge unsatisfied maws.

But one of them was a song of pure and true passion that seemed to be the yearning cry of a hungering, unfilled, unsatisfied heart to call down love out of the skies, or else be carried up to it.

I could with less pain endure the raging in my own natural unsatisfied appetites, even hunger or thirst, than I could submit to leave ungratified the most whimsical desires of a woman on whom I so extravagantly doated, that, though I knew she had been the mistress of half my acquaintance, I firmly intended to marry her.

I shall have no doubt, which the evidence of the witness can clear up, unsifted and unsatisfied.

But if you have sat at the table, hungering all the time and repressing yourself, then, when the sudden call comes, and you must rise and leave it for ever, think what a misery and bitterness to be dragged away from the brilliant table, with all its dishes and its wines untasted, its flowers unsmelt, and be crammed away into the darkness--hungry, thirsty, and unsatisfied.

But they balanced, in the end, and the creature in the shadows skulked away, unsatisfied.

Whenever and wherever he sings multitudes flock to hear him, and no one goes away unsatisfied.