unsatisfying

Speech parts

1. unsatisfying - Adjective

2. unsatisfying - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

not up to expectations

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

disappointing dissatisfactory poor affected academic bad thin empty insufficient failing inferior incomplete inadequate wanting useless
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Antonyms

certain real complete clear actual distinct
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Phrases with the word

less unsatisfying be unsatisfying more unsatisfying

Examples

Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying. J. Paul Getty

Painful feeling is suffering in itself; pleasant feeling brings suffering through its transiency and its unsatisfying and unsatisfactory nature. Nyanaponika Thera

If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is so direct. Helen Vendler

Life is complicated. It's filled with nuance. It's unsatisfying. If I believe in anything, it is doubt. Anthony Bourdain

A man who can take anything will find most things unsatisfying. And a man without memories is just a shell. Mitch Albom

Amending your own mind is very, very satisfying... amending other people's minds is a fruitless, unsatisfying effort. Richard Bergland

Close letter words and terms

unsatisfiedness unsatisfy unsatisfyedness unsatisfyingly unsatisfyingness unsaturable