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/sˌætəsfˈæktri/ /sˌætɪsfˈæktəri/ Listen

adjective

Satisfactory adj.

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.

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 meritorious death and obedience of the incarnate Son of God, Jesus Christ."

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Etymology of 'Satisfactory'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... received satisfactory replies to all his queries, he gave himself up to transports of exultation, such as his own most confidential freedman never before ...

— The Roman Traitor (Vol. 2 of 2) • Henry William Herbert

... chairman in some of the more advanced of the British industries. In reality this shop chairman would be the shop executive, holding office while he could retain the good will of his shop-mates, and while he could give a satisfactory account of his shop in the ...

— The Next Step - A Plan for Economic World Federation • Scott Nearing

... at the risk of my own life, from a watery grave. I gave out she was my wife, that the affair might reach your ears, and you would believe the child willfully eloped with me. I swear to you no impure thought ever crossed that child's brain. I gave her a very satisfactory explanation as to why I had started so false a report. In her innocence—it seemed plausible—she did not ...

— Daisy Brooks - A Perilous Love • Laura Jean Libbey

... accompanied the contemptible little army on the retreat from Mons had no precedents from other campaigns to guide them, and the somewhat vague dictum that their function was to gather information had to be interpreted by pioneer methods. These were satisfactory under the then conditions of warfare, inasmuch as valuable information certainly was gathered during the retreat, when a blind move would have meant disaster,—how valuable only the chiefs of the hard-pressed force can say. This involved more than the average difficulties, for as the ...

— Cavalry of the Clouds • Alan Bott

... the death of Captain Cook, are taken from Mr Samwell's Narrative, as given in the Biographia Britannica; to which, also, we are indebted for the most minute and satisfactory account of this illustrious man ever yet published, and to which, therefore, we refer ...

— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16 • Robert Kerr

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