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SATISFACTORY
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Meeting requirements
Example:
a decent wage
Synonyms:
acceptable; decent; satisfactory
Classified under:
Similar:
good (having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified)
Derivation:
satisfactoriness (the quality of giving satisfaction sufficient to meet a demand or requirement)
satisfy (fill, satisfy or meet a want or need or condtion ro restriction)
satisfy (meet the requirements or expectations of)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Giving satisfaction
Example:
his grades were satisfactory
Classified under:
Similar:
adequate; fair to middling; passable; tolerable (about average; acceptable)
all right; cool; fine; hunky-dory; o.k.; ok; okay (being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition)
alright (nonstandard usage)
cheering; comforting; satisfying (providing freedom from worry)
copacetic; copasetic; copesetic; copesettic (completely satisfactory)
passing (allowing you to pass (e.g., an examination or inspection) satisfactorily)
right (in or into a satisfactory condition)
Also:
acceptable (worthy of acceptance or satisfactory)
adequate; equal (having the requisite qualities or resources to meet a task)
Antonym:
unsatisfactory (not giving satisfaction)
Derivation:
satisfactoriness (the quality of giving satisfaction sufficient to meet a demand or requirement)
satisfy (fill, satisfy or meet a want or need or condtion ro restriction)
satisfy (meet the requirements or expectations of)
Context examples:
The route is considered reasonably safe and permits rapid achievement of satisfactory plasma concentrations of therapeutic agent.
(Intramedullary Route of Administration, NCI Thesaurus)
This conviction, though not entirely satisfactory, gave her pleasure, and she continued her letter with greater alacrity.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
You have explained, sir; but it is for others in another place to say if that explanation is satisfactory.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A date of an official approbation, recognition, or acceptance as satisfactory.
(Approval Date, NCI Thesaurus)
Stay! I have it here—it is always more satisfactory to see important points written down, fairly committed to black and white.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Issue associate with facility not providing satisfactory initial and/or periodic user training covering operation of the device.
(Inadequate Device Operator Training, Food and Drug Administration)
Proceeding in a satisfactory manner; proceeding as expected or planned.
(Going Well, NCI Thesaurus)
A document containing a formal acceptance as satisfactory, and/or official agreement or permission.
(Approval Document, NCI Thesaurus)
If anything came up, or will come up, it may take that long to come to a satisfactory resolution.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
The researchers are now enrolling patients in a clinical trial to test JAK inhibitors in patients with SAVI and other rare autoinflammatory syndromes for which there are no satisfactory treatments.
(Gene linked to rare inflammatory disease in children, NIH)
