Word Meanings - DISSATISFY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To render unsatisfied or discontented; to excite uneasiness in by frustrating wishes or expectations; to displease by the want of something requisite; as, to be dissatisfied with one's fortune. The dissatisfied factions of the autocracy. Bancroft.

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• FRUSTRATORY
  Making void; rendering null; as, a frustratory appeal. Ayliffe.
• FORTUNELESS
  Luckless; also, destitute of a fortune or portion. Spenser.
• EXCITEFUL
  Full of exciting qualities; as, an exciteful story; exciteful players. Chapman.
• REQUISITE
  That which is required, or is necessary; something indispensable. God, on his part, has declared the requisites on ours; what we must do to obtain blessings, is the great business of us all to know. Wake.
• FORTUNE
  1. To make fortunate; to give either good or bad fortune to. Chaucer. 2. To provide with a fortune. Richardson. 3. To presage; to tell the fortune of. Dryden.
• SOMETHING
  , adv. In some degree; somewhat; to some exrent; at some distance. Shak. I something fear my father's wrath. Shak. We have something fairer play than a reasoner could have expected formerly. Burke. My sense of touch is something coarse. Tennyson.
• 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.
• FRUSTRATION
  The act of frustrating; disappointment; defeat; as, the frustration of one's designs
• AUTOCRACY
  The action of the vital principle, or of the instinctive powers, toward the preservation of the individual; also, the vital principle. Dunglison. (more info) 1. Independent or self-derived power; absolute or controlling authority; supremacy.
• RENDERABLE
  Capable of being rendered.
• DISCONTENT
  Not content; discontented; dissatisfied. Jer. Taylor. Passion seemed to be much discontent, but Patience was very quiet. Bunyan.
• DISCONTENTATION
  Discontent. Ascham.
• DISCONTENTIVE
  Relating or tending to discontent. "Pride is ever discontentive." Feltham.
• DISCONTENTING
  1. Discontented. Shak. 2. Causing discontent; dissatisfying. Milton.
• DISCONTENTED
  Dissatisfied; uneasy in mind; malcontent. And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him. 1 Sam. xxii. 2. -- Dis`con*tent"ed*ly, adv. -- Dis`con*tent"ed*ness, n.
• DISPLEASER
  One who displeases.
• RENDERER
  1. One who renders. 2. A vessel in which lard or tallow, etc., is rendered.
• FRUSTRATELY
  In vain. Vicars.
• RENDERING
  The act of one who renders, or that which is rendered. Specifically: A version; translation; as, the rendering of the Hebrew text. Lowth. In art, the presentation, expression, or interpretation of an idea, theme, or part. The act of laying
• RENDER
  1. A surrender. Shak. 2. A return; a payment of rent. In those early times the king's household was supported by specific renders of corn and other victuals from the tenants of the demains. Blackstone. 3. An account given; a statement. Shak.
• PREREQUISITE
  Previously required; necessary as a preliminary to any proposed effect or end; as, prerequisite conditions of success.
• MISFORTUNED
  Unfortunate.
• FRUSTRATE
  Vain; ineffectual; useless; unprofitable; null; voil; nugatory; of no effect. "Our frustrate search." Shak. (more info) to deceive, frustrate, fr. frustra in vain, witout effect, in erorr,
• MISRENDER
  To render wrongly; to translate or recite wrongly. Boyle.
• WHEEL OF FORTUNE
  A gambling or lottery device consisting of a wheel which is spun horizontally, articles or sums to which certain marks on its circumference point when it stops being distributed according to varying rules.
• SURRENDER
  To yield; to render or deliver up; to give up; as, a principal surrendered by his bail, a fugitive from justice by a foreign state, or a particular estate by the tenant thereof to him in remainder or reversion. (more info) 1. To yield to the power
• OVEREXCITE
  To excite too much.
• SURRENDEROR
  One who makes a surrender, as of an estate. Bouvier.
• BEFORTUNE
  To befall. I wish all good befortune you. Shak.
• PRENDER
  The power or right of taking a thing before it is offered. Burrill.
• OVEREXCITEMENT
  Excess of excitement; the state of being overexcited.