\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.