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dissatisfied adjective

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Definition

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?

dissatisfaction noun

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At the moment she's experiencing a lot of dissatisfaction with her job.

(Definition of dissatisfied adjective from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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