(n.) The state of being dissatisfied, unsatisfied, or discontented; uneasiness proceeding from the want of gratification, or from disappointed wishes and expectations.
Example Sentences:
(1) Bereaved individuals were significantly more likely to report heightened dysphoria, dissatisfaction, and somatic disturbances typical of depression, even when variations in age, sex, number of years married, and educational and occupational status were taken into account.
(2) Movies such as Concussion , about the dissatisfactions of a bourgeois lesbian marriage, are already starting to ask these questions.
(3) Seventy-two per cent of the 226 respondents had used the service, 23% more than four times, and 94% indicated satisfaction at having such a service available, with only 1% expressing dissatisfaction.
(4) There are three kinds of motivation: the intrinsic motivation which means the guy is naturally demanding of himself that he wants to be the best, and he has always that inner dissatisfaction with what he has achieved.
(5) While both treatment groups expressed high dissatisfaction with all aspects of their lives, relative to controls, problem drinkers experienced a greater variety of problems than weight clients.
(6) In the last decades, the interest was almost always an expression of dissatisfaction with an exclusively scientifically oriented medicine.
(7) The data did not show "job dissatisfaction" to be a major factor prompting pursuit of the Pharm.D.
(8) Mourinho has been vociferous in his complaints about the scheduling of key domestic fixtures around European ties this season and reiterated his dissatisfaction after Tuesday's goalless draw in Madrid, claiming to be baffled as to why the match at Anfield could not be played on Friday or Saturday to assist the last English club involved in European competition.
(9) The results of the multiple logistic regression analysis indicated that job-dissatisfaction together with age and education was significantly correlated with medical consultation (p less than 0.05).
(10) The user interface, method of manual data entry, time to produce the record and difficulty learning the system were the source of the greatest dissatisfaction.
(11) The recent big increase in learning opportunities for general practitioners, particularly in postgraduate medical centres, has been accompanied by increasing suspicion that educational activities may not be fulfilling the aims of continuing education, and that there is dissatisfaction with existing courses.This study took place in the north-western region, and 18 clinical tutors were interviewed using a structured interview schedule.Very few of the clinical tutors were aware of the existence of the book The Future General Practitioner-Learning and Teaching, and most activities consisted of lectures, lecturers usually being local and regional consultants, with occasional national authorities.
(12) Many myopic people, expressing dissatisfaction with traditional methods of optical correction, are interested in a permanent correction of their refractive error which would alleviate dependence on corrective lenses.
(13) Dissatisfaction was also associated with increased reaction time in the visual search task, perhaps also a reflection of an inability to ignore irrelevant stimuli.
(14) "The television business is based on managed dissatisfaction.
(15) There was a significant main effect for marital satisfaction, with distressed couples expressing more dissatisfaction in sexual relations and more negative communications during conflict resolution tasks.
(16) We asked questions about their feelings related to the need for hospitalization, their present problems, whether hospitalization had helped them, their satisfaction or dissatisfaction with ward life, and their feelings about discharge.
(17) As the health care system becomes more impersonal, competitive, and cost conscious, there is a potential for increased dissatisfaction with health care providers.
(18) A sample of elderly parents in the state of Florida was contrasted with a national sample of parents in their childbearing years with respect to the satisfactions and dissatisfactions of having children.
(19) Some elements of dissatisfaction (concerning the limited length of the erect penis, difficult coital position, and failing ejaculation) were found, that draw attention to the necessity of improving information and psychosexual counselling.
(20) The dramatic plunge in support for Merkel's party, which polled 42.6% of the vote at the last election in Hamburg, in 2008, can be attributed to voter dissatisfaction with the chancellor's handling of the euro crisis as well as problems within her own party at home – and particularly in Hamburg.
Unsatisfactory
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Further development of drug formulary concept was discussed, primarily for the drugs paid by the Health Insurance, as well as the unsatisfactory ADR reporting in Yugoslavia.
(2) Combining data on cows with productive and salvaged outcomes as satisfactory outcome, and terminal as unsatisfactory outcome, total correct classification was 90.7% for the admission model and 93.2% for the surgical model.
(3) There were a further eight cases (16%) whose management appeared to have been unsatisfactory but who would have been expected to die even if given optimal treatment.
(4) The unsatisfactory smear showed atypical spindle cells.
(5) In the first experiment, mongrel and ddS mice produced under an unsatisfactory control of proximate environment were purchased, and acute toxicity tests of thiamine hydrochloride (B1HCl) and isonicotinic acid hydrazide (INAH) were practiced at two different conditioned rooms.
(6) Results with Brain Heart Infusion broth were unsatisfactory.
(7) The results of single modality treatment using surgery or radiotherapy alone in advanced head and neck cancers are known to be unsatisfactory.
(8) Considerations of different ways of obtaining informed consent, determining ways of minimizing harm, and justifications for violating the therapeutic obligation are discussed but found unsatisfactory in many respects.
(9) The unsatisfactory result in a case of paraspinal AVM was due to its wide extension with multiple feeding arteries.
(10) Twenty-five patients (27%) subsequently developed unsatisfactory courses, but 48 (52%) patients remained well through the 30-day period.
(11) Predictive value of a negative ECC was 100% in patients with satisfactory colposcopy, and 98% for unsatisfactory colposcopy.
(12) Their well-being remains obviously unsatisfactory and becomes even worse and threatening for single cases after the move.
(13) There were 16% where liquor was not obtained at the first attempt, and a further 7% where cell growth or biochemical testing was unsatisfactory.
(14) A review of 103 surgically closed pressure sores shows unsatisfactory results.
(15) There has been a deeply unsatisfactory culture in Fifa for many years,” he said.
(16) As the result of differences in drug intake by individual calves, a pelleted feed additive given as top dress on chopped alfalfa hay gave an unsatisfactory mean anthelmintic response.
(17) Nevertheless, the range of motion remains more or less unsatisfactory.
(18) Total of unsatisfactory samples reached 4812 (28.7 per cent).
(19) The results of surgical therapy have been unsatisfactory in the past because of poor long-term left pulmonary artery patency and failure to address concomitant primary tracheobronchial stenoses.
(20) A comparison of acid-base variables from fourteen canine arterial, venous and capillary blood samples revealed in most cases that venous and capillary blood samples showed unsatisfactory agreement with corresponding arterial blood samples.