Word Meanings - DISSATISFACTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The state of being dissatisfied, unsatisfied, or discontented; uneasiness proceeding from the want of gratification, or from disappointed wishes and expectations. The ambitious man has little happiness, but is subject to much uneasiness

Additional info about word: DISSATISFACTION

The state of being dissatisfied, unsatisfied, or discontented; uneasiness proceeding from the want of gratification, or from disappointed wishes and expectations. The ambitious man has little happiness, but is subject to much uneasiness and dissatisfaction. Addison. Syn. -- Discontent; discontentment; displeasure; disapprobation; distaste; dislike.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DISSATISFACTION)

• Disquietude
• Anxiety
• solicitude
• uneasiness
• embarrassment
• apprehension
• agitation
• disturbance
• commotion
• dissatisfaction
• Grudge
• Spite
• grievance
• aversion
• rancor
• hatred
• pique
• discontent
• refusal
• Umbrage
• Offence
• resentment
• jealousy
• displeasure

Related words: (words related to DISSATISFACTION)

• RANCOR
  The deepest malignity or spite; deep-seated enmity or malice; inveterate hatred. "To stint rancour and dissencioun." Chaucer. It would not be easy to conceive the passion, rancor, and malice of their tongues and hearts. Burke. Syn. --
• AGITATION
  1. The act of agitating, or the state of being agitated; the state of being moved with violence, or with irregular action; commotion; as, the sea after a storm is in agitation. 2. A stirring up or arousing; disturbance of tranquillity; disturbance
• APPREHENSION
  1. The act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure; as, the hand is an organ of apprehension. Sir T. Browne. 2. The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest; as, the felon, after his apprehension, escaped. 3. The act of grasping with the
• GRUDGEONS; GURGEONS
  Coarse meal.
• SPITE
  1. Ill-will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the disposition to irritate, annoy, or thwart; petty malice; grudge; rancor; despite. Pope. This is the deadly spite that angers. Shak. 2. Vexation; chargrin; mortification. Shak. In spite
• SOLICITUDE
  The state of being solicitous; uneasiness of mind occasioned by fear of evil or desire good; anxiety. The many cares and great labors of worldly men, their solicitude and outward shows. Sir W. Raleigh. The mother looked at her with fond solicitude.
• PIQUET
  See PICKET
• RANCOROUS
  Full of rancor; evincing, or caused by, rancor; deeply malignant; implacably spiteful or malicious; intensely virulent. So flamed his eyes with rage and rancorous ire. Spenser.
• DISCONTENT
  Not content; discontented; dissatisfied. Jer. Taylor. Passion seemed to be much discontent, but Patience was very quiet. Bunyan.
• PIQUE
  A cotton fabric, figured in the loom, -- used as a dress goods for women and children, and for vestings, etc.
• HATRED
  Strong aversion; intense dislike; hate; an affection of the mind awakened by something regarded as evil. Syn. -- Odium; ill will; enmity; hate; animosity; malevolence; rancor; malignity; detestation; loathing; abhorrence; repugnance; antipathy.
• AVERSION
  1. A turning away. Adhesion to vice and aversion from goodness. Bp. Atterbury. 2. Opposition or repugnance of mind; fixed dislike; antipathy; disinclination; reluctance. Mutual aversion of races. Prescott. His rapacity had made him an object of
• ANXIETY
  A state of restlessness and agitation, often with general indisposition and a distressing sense of oppression at the epigastrium. Dunglison. Syn. -- Care; solicitude; foreboding; uneasiness; perplexity; disquietude; disquiet; trouble; apprehension;
• DISTURBANCE
  The hindering or disquieting of a person in the lawful and peaceable enjoyment of his right; the interruption of a right; as, the disturbance of a franchise, of common, of ways, and the like. Blackstone. Syn. -- Tumult; brawl; commotion; turmoil;
• OFFENCE
  See OFFENSE
• UNEASINESS
  1. The quality or state of being uneasy; restlessness; disquietude; anxiety. 2. The quality of making uneasy; discomfort; as, the uneasiness of the road. Bp. Burnet.
• COMMOTION
  1. Disturbed or violent motion; agitation. commotion in the winds! Shak. 2. A popular tumult; public disturbance; riot. When ye shall hear of wars and commotions. Luke xxi. 9. 3. Agitation, perturbation, or disorder, of mind; heat; excitement.
• GRUDGE
  grouchier, grocier, groucier; cf. Icel. krytja to murmur, krutr a 1. To look upon with desire to possess or to appropriate; to envy the possession of; to begrudge; to covet; to give with reluctance; to desire to get back again; -- followed by the
• DISCONTENTATION
  Discontent. Ascham.
• HATRACK
  A hatstand; hattree.
• PREAPPREHENSION
  An apprehension or opinion formed before examination or knowledge. Sir T. Browne.
• AGGRIEVANCE
  Oppression; hardship; injury; grievance.
• KSHATRIYA; KSHATRUYA
  The military caste, the second of the four great Hindoo castes; also, a member of that caste. See Caste.
• OVERANXIETY
  The state of being overanxious; excessive anxiety.
• UNEMBARRASSMENT
  Freedom from embarrassment.
• INAPPREHENSION
  Want of apprehension.