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Originally Posted by Rocky
...What would be the purpose to add a new word like unsatisfied, when we already had a perfectly good word, dissatisfied?
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I am not a native speaker of English, so I ought not really insist.
My understanding of the two words is that 'dissatisfied' refers to somebody, who, in the past, was not satisfied in his or her expectations.
'Unsatisfied' for me is a word that expresses that certain needs or expectations yet want to be fulfilled.
Well, of course, my understanding is irrelevant...
I feel that English is a very fast changing and flexible language, new words are coined almost daily.
So: Language lives, dinosaurs became extinct.
m'frog