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Definition of Satisfactory
1. Adjective. Giving satisfaction. "His grades were satisfactory"
Similar to: Adequate, Fair To Middling, Passable, Tolerable, All Right, Fine, Hunky-dory, O.k., Ok, Okay, Alright, Cheering, Comforting, Satisfying, Copacetic, Copasetic, Copesetic, Copesettic, Passing, Right
Derivative terms: Satisfactoriness, Satisfy, Satisfy
Antonyms: Unsatisfactory
2. Adjective. Meeting requirements. "The step makes a satisfactory seat"
Similar to: Good
Derivative terms: Accept, Acceptability, Acceptableness, Satisfactoriness, Satisfy, Satisfy
Definition of Satisfactory
1. 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.
Definition of Satisfactory
1. Adjective. Done to satisfaction; adequate or sufficient ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Satisfactory
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Satisfactory
1. 1. 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. 2. 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. "A most wise and sufficient means of redemption and salvation, by the satisfactory and meritorius death and obedience of the incarnate Son of God, Jesus Christ." (Bp. Sanderson) Satisfac"tority, Satisfac"toriness. Origin: Cf. F. Satisfactoire. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Satisfactory
Literary usage of Satisfactory
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Roughing It by Mark Twain (2001)
"The United States was too much accustomed to employing dollar-and-a-half satisfactory
VOUCHER. thieves in all manner of official capacities to regard his ..."
2. The Novels of Jane Austen by Jane Austen (1892)
"... was safely delivered of a son and heir; a very interesting and satisfactory
paragraph, at least to all those intimate connections who knew it before. ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"... more resistant objects like seeds or stem fragments have left nothing but the
cavity or cast, and such objects often furnish ' satisfactory subjects for ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... more satisfactory explanation of the results of disuse, as these results affect
the species, than have those who cling to the older evolution theories. ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"The last was accepted, and the results were satisfactory enough to prevent further
trouble for more than 20 years. ..."
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