Check out this set of words: dissatisfied, unsatisfied, dissatisfactory, unsatisfactory, dissatisfying and unsatisfying.
Can you tell the difference between them?
Now let's clear them up.
un = not quite, not completely;
dis = not at all, lack of;
...tory = about minimum criteria;
...ing = about the whole satisfaction or lack of it;
Notice that you cannot say about a person using the above-mentioned words ending with ing or tory, and instead you should apply the suffix ed to describe a person.
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