dissatisfaction
/dɪsˌsætɪsˈfækʃən/US/dɪsˌsætɪsˈfækʃən/
dissatisfaction noun: unhappiness or discontent.
Noun
dissatisfaction (countable and uncountable, plural dissatisfactions)
- Unhappiness or discontent.
- Job dissatisfaction results in high turnover.
- The coup was well-planned. Fuel was artificially held back so as to create shortages and dissatisfaction with Brotherhood rule. The old state-controlled unions mounted public sector strikes that further sabotaged the economy and annoyed people. Police-controlled thugs who had been used against the...2013 August 23, Jonathan Steele, “The west has little influence in Egypt”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 11, archived from the original on 05 Jan 2020, page 18
- The cause of such feelings.
dissatisfaction meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Telugu
dissatisfaction in Tamil
- அறுத்தாய்வு செய், கூறுபடுத்து, பிள, மனக்குறை, மனநிறைவின்மை, வெட்டு
dissatisfaction in Urdu
- بےاطمینانی, ناگواری, ناخوشی
dissatisfaction in Bengali
- dissatisfaction, displeasure
- অখুশি okhuśi
dissatisfaction in Telugu
- unhappiness or discontent
- అసంతుష్టి asantuṣṭi
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- dissatisfaction in Malayalam
- അസംതൃപ്തി asantr̥pti, അതൃപ്തി atr̥pti
- dissatisfaction in Kannada
- ಅತುಷ್ಟಿ, ಅಸಮಾಧಾನ, ಅಸಂತೋಷ, ಅತೃಪ್ತಿ
- dissatisfaction in Odia
- କଳ୍ପନା kaḷpanā
Examples of dissatisfaction in a sentence
- Fuel was artificially held back so as to create shortages and dissatisfaction with Brotherhood rule.2013 August 23, Jonathan Steele, “The west has little influence in Egypt”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 11, archived from the...
- The hypothesis that the strength of the relationship between ED pathology and body image dissatisfaction would be weaker in the autistic group was not supported.2025 February 14, Heather Westwood, Will Mandy, Rebecca Brewer, “The Relationship Between Interoception, Alexithymia, Autistic Traits and...
Forms of dissatisfaction
| plural | dissatisfactions |
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Origin of dissatisfaction
From dis- + satisfaction.
Words formed from dissatisfaction
Questions about dissatisfaction
- What does dissatisfaction mean?
- Dissatisfaction means unhappiness or discontent.
- What is dissatisfaction in Tamil?
- Dissatisfaction in Tamil is அறுத்தாய்வு செய், கூறுபடுத்து, பிள. See Dissatisfaction meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use dissatisfaction in a sentence?
- Fuel was artificially held back so as to create shortages and dissatisfaction with Brotherhood rule.
- What part of speech is dissatisfaction?
- Dissatisfaction is a noun.
- How do you pronounce dissatisfaction?
- Dissatisfaction is pronounced /dɪsˌsætɪsˈfækʃən/ (UK).
- What is the plural of dissatisfaction?
- The plural of dissatisfaction is dissatisfactions.
Words near dissatisfaction in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: dissatisfaction (page history and authors); dissatisfaction (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); dissatisfaction (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); অখুশি (Bengali) (page history and authors); dissatisfaction (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); କଳ୍ପନା (Odia) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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