"ungratifying" is a valid word in English and can be used in written English.
It is an adjective used to describe something that does not satisfy or fulfill expectations or desires. Example: The ungratifying job did not offer any benefits or satisfaction.
Ward also talks about stationery love as a reaction to the sometimes ungratifying advance of technology.
After Iranian students storm the American Embassy in Tehran, Vanessa Goldstein's school friends count up the hostages' days of captivity but channel their own hunger for protest and violence into punk rock concerts and a "visceral feel of ruin" that includes casual, ungratifying sex.
Ben Heppner, considered a leading Wagner tenor, was originally cast by the Met but withdrew in February because he was said to have found the role difficult and ungratifying.
The premise is that kids are vomiting their way through Mediterranean seaside towns on a quest for what will be likely extremely ungratifying lovemaking, but little do they know, their parents are watching their every chirpse via hidden cameras.
The filmmakers spend plenty of time with him in his car and record his insightful perorations about his job and his colleagues — and it is precisely his detachment, his ability to assess what he's doing, that renders him less successful and more frustrated in his ungratifying, predatory work.
Artists often do ungratifying work because they need the money, because they aren't receiving many offers, or even because a role, however thinly written or conceived, sparks something in their imagination or their inspiration that they want to nourish or develop or test.
At the symposium, he was content to simply express his fear that analysts' overzealous playing of their roles as silent, ungratifying, unknowable beings might subvert the very process it was intended to set in motion.
So it is surprising that his analysis here is often glib and ungratifying.
