UNSATISFIED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unsatisfied mean? 

• UNSATISFIED (adjective)
  The adjective UNSATISFIED has 2 senses:

1. not having been satisfied

2. worried and uneasy

  Familiarity information: UNSATISFIED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNSATISFIED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not having been satisfied

Synonyms:

unsated; unsatiated; unsatisfied

Similar:

insatiable; insatiate; unsatiable (impossible to satisfy)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Worried and uneasy

Synonyms:

restless; ungratified; unsatisfied

Similar:

discontent; discontented (showing or experiencing dissatisfaction or restless longing)

 Context examples 

But they went away with vengeance unsatisfied.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

I shall no longer feel the agonies which now consume me or be the prey of feelings unsatisfied, yet unquenched.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Free Radical Binding involves temporary interaction with chemically unstable and highly reactive molecules (free radicals) having an unsatisfied electron valence pair.

(Free Radical Binding, NCI Thesaurus)

As to you, friend Watson, I owe you every atonement for having allowed your natural curiosity to remain so long unsatisfied.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

On the other hand, he was human, and his gregarious need for companionship remained unsatisfied.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

To retire to bed, however, unsatisfied on such a point, would be vain, since sleep must be impossible with the consciousness of a cabinet so mysteriously closed in her immediate vicinity.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

I leant against a pillar of the verandah, drew my grey mantle close about me, and, trying to forget the cold which nipped me without, and the unsatisfied hunger which gnawed me within, delivered myself up to the employment of watching and thinking.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Jo gave her sister an encouraging pat on the shoulder as they parted for the day, each going a different way, each hugging her little warm turnover, and each trying to be cheerful in spite of wintry weather, hard work, and the unsatisfied desires of pleasure-loving youth.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

In spite of the intense labour and wonderful discoveries of modern philosophers, I always came from my studies discontented and unsatisfied.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

It is not the want of more money that makes me just at present a little out of spirits; I hate money; and if our union could take place now upon only fifty pounds a year, I should not have a wish unsatisfied.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)