Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - dissatisfied

If you are dissatisfied with something, you are not contented or pleased with it. 82% of voters are dissatisfied with the way their country is being governed... ADJ: oft ADJ with n DISSECT (dissects, dissecting, dissected) 1. If someone dissects the body of a dead person or animal, they carefully cut it up in order to examine it scientifically. We dissected a frog in biology class. VERB: V n • dissection (dissections) Researchers need a growing supply of corpses for dissection. N-VAR 2. If someone dissects something such as a theory, a situation, or a piece of writing, they consider and talk about each detail of it. People want to dissect his work and question his motives. VERB: V n • dissection (dissections) ...her calm, condescending dissection of my proposals. N-VAR: usu N of n