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Meaning of DISSATISFACTORY

Pronunciation:  `dissatis'fakturee

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [adj]  not up to expectations; "a disappointing performance from one who had seemed so promising"
 
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 Synonyms: disappointing, unsatisfactory, unsatisfying
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Dis*sat`is*fac"to*ry\, a.
Causing dissatisfaction; unable to give content;
unsatisfactory; displeasing.
      To have reduced the different qualifications in the
      different States to one uniform rule, would probably
      have been as dissatisfactory to some of the States, as
      difficult for the Convention.            --A. Hamilton.
-- {Dis*sat`is*fac"to*ri*ness}, n.
 

 

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