Expressing Satisfaction and Dissatisfaction

Standard Competency :

Expressing the meaning within the formal and sustained transactional and interpersonal in the context of daily life.

Basic Competency :

Understand transactional discourse and dialogue leading to varieties of interpersonal meaning and / or oral monologue in the forms of analytical exposition and hortatory exposition

 

Definition :

•  Expressing Satisfaction: a feeling of happiness or pleasure because you have achieved something or got what you wanted. (http://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/satisfaction)
•  Expressing Dissatisfaction: expressing lack of satisfaction

Expressing Satisfaction : 

• It is with great pleasure that...!
• It gives me great satisfaction..
• I'm very pleased with it
• A most delightful example of..
• What a beautiful story!
• Great, love it.
• I'm content with.
• I'm satisfied with it.
•  I'm completely satisfied with what you've done for me.
• It was satisfactory.
•  Everything was just fine.
• I'm happy enough with it.
• Good enough.
• Good job.
• I’m satisfied with ….
• I am very happy.
• I like it.
• I enjoy it very much.

 

Expressing Dissatisfaction:

• It is disappointing that.!
• It is unacceptable
• This is the limit I won't take any more of...
• Well, this is most unsatisfactory.
• The concert is so boring.
• What an awful meeting
• It's not as good as I thought.
• It isn’t very nice.
• It’s really not good enough.
• I’m dissatisfied by ….
• It’s dissatisfying.
• Oh no.
• I am a little dissatisfied with the service here.
• I am a bit disappointed with the program.
• The food was lousy. 

 

Example :

 

Expressing Satisfaction :

• Nothing satisfied him. He is always complaining.
• I’m satisfied with the exam  result of my students.
• The good news is satisfying.
• The results of yours test are satisfactory.
• Your success will be a great satisfaction to your parents.

 

Expressing Dissatisfaction

• The bad news dissatisfied me.
• The workers were dissatisfied with their salaries.
• The preparation for the basket ball competition is dissatisfying 
• It is really a dissatisfying preparation.