Satisfactory
[sætɪs'fækt(ə)rɪ] or [,sætɪs'fæktəri]
Definition
(adj.) meeting requirements; 'the step makes a satisfactory seat' .
(adj.) giving satisfaction; 'satisfactory living conditions'; 'his grades were satisfactory' .
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Definition
(a.) Giving or producing satisfaction; yielding content; especially, relieving the mind from doubt or uncertainty, and enabling it to rest with confidence; sufficient; as, a satisfactory account or explanation.
(a.) Making amends, indemnification, or recompense; causing to cease from claims and to rest content; compensating; atoning; as, to make satisfactory compensation, or a satisfactory apology.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Gratifying, pleasing.[2]. Sufficient, conclusive, convincing, decisive.[3]. Compensating, atoning, that makes amends.
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Examples
- The sitting was altogether very satisfactory; she was quite enough pleased with the first day's sketch to wish to go on. Jane Austen. Emma.
- It furnishes profitable amusement to the young, and satisfactory aid to the nervous and paralytic. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- For a year or more I had endeavoured to find a satisfactory answer to her often-repeated question, 'What I would like to be? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I announced myself and was disposed of with the highly satisfactory results embodied before you. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I guess it was satisfactory; we got the money, which was the main point to us. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I am aware that Sir Percival Glyde's explanation has been considered satisfactory. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Thus the first act closed in a manner which was entirely satisfactory. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- A more satisfactory arrangement to both sides could not possibly have been adopted. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- This arrangement was generally satisfactory, but the resistance-boxes scattered about the platform and foot-rests being in the way, Edison directed that some No. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Now, about the pecuniary arrangements between us--do tell me--are they satisfactory? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- He wrote to Leverrier in reference to the errors of the radius vector and received a satisfactory and sufficiently compliant reply. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- It would be far more satisfactory to your kind heart, I know,' he said, 'to provide for her, but it may be a duty to respect this independent spirit. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Only through them, in the literal time sense, will the initial activities reach a satisfactory consummation. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Is Anything satisfactory, Mr Boffin? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- One night, after receiving a satisfactory report of progress from Mr. Mason, superintendent of the cement plant, he said: The only way to keep ahead of the procession is to experiment. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It is also noted that In 1874 Edison invented a method of simultaneous transmission by induced currents, which has given very satisfactory results in experimental trials. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Upon examination, I find only one of the reasons commonly produced for this opinion to be satisfactory, viz. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- It was hasty enough, but perfectly satisfactory. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- An example will, perhaps, be the most satisfactory explanation. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He recalled the émigrés, provided they gave satisfactory assurances to respect the new régime. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I ask the same question concerning the impressions of these tables; and find that the answer is no more satisfactory in one case than in the other. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- The outcome of the mixture is perhaps less satisfactory than if either principle were adhered to in its purity. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- This was not satisfactory, but I regarded it as deserving another letter and wrote him as follows: April 8, 1865. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- This dredge is the only one found satisfactory in excavating rock. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- This is satisfactory,' said Wardle, hardly knowing whether to smile or be offended. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Pointing to this result as a large and satisfactory one, Mr Boffin smeared it out with his moistened glove, and sat down on the remains. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Two different answers, I find, have been made to this argument; neither of which is in my opinion satisfactory. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Thank your ladyship, says Mr. Guppy; quite satisfactory. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- That's not satisfactory, you know, what you're a-saying. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Simple and satisfactory. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
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