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Dissatisfactory definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DISSATISFACTORY, a. Unable to give content. Rather, giving discontent; 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.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: not up to expectations; "a disappointing performance from one who had seemed so promising" [syn: disappointing, dissatisfactory, unsatisfying]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: circa 1610 causing dissatisfaction

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Dissatisfactory 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.