Word Meanings - DISSATISFACTORY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: DISSATISFACTORY

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.

Related words: (words related to DISSATISFACTORY)

• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• STATESMANLIKE
  Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
• CONTENTMENT
  1. The state of being contented or satisfied; content. Contentment without external honor is humility. Grew. Godliness with contentment is great gain. 1 Tim. vi. 6. 2. The act or process of contenting or satisfying; as, the contentment of avarice
• DIFFERENTIALLY
  In the way of differentiation.
• CONTENTLY
  In a contented manner.
• CAUSATIVE
  1. Effective, as a cause or agent; causing. Causative in nature of a number of effects. Bacon. 2. Expressing a cause or reason; causal; as, the ablative is a causative case.
• UNIFORMISM
  The doctrine of uniformity in the geological history of the earth; -- in part equivalent to uniformitarianism, but also used, more broadly, as opposed to catastrophism.
• REDUCEMENT
  Reduction. Milton.
• CAUSEWAYED; CAUSEYED
  Having a raised way ; paved. Sir W. Scott. C. Bronté.
• UNIFORMAL
  Uniform. Herrick.
• DIFFERENTLY
  In a different manner; variously.
• CAUSATOR
  One who causes. Sir T. Browne.
• REDUCE
  To bring to the metallic state by separating from impurities; hence, in general, to remove oxygen from; to deoxidize; to combine with, or to subject to the action of, hydrogen; as, ferric iron is reduced to ferrous iron; or metals are reduced from
• UNIFORMLY
  In a uniform manner; without variation or diversity; by a regular, constant, or common ratio of change; with even tenor; as, a temper uniformly mild. To vary uniformly , to vary with the ratio of the corresponding increments constant; -- said of
• CONTENTIOUS
  Contested; litigated; litigious; having power to decide controversy. Contentious jurisdiction , jurisdiction over matters in controversy between parties, in contradistinction to voluntary jurisdiction, or that exercised upon matters not opposed
• CAUSTICILY
  1. The quality of being caustic; corrosiveness; as, the causticity of potash. 2. Severity of language; sarcasm; as, the causticity of a reply or remark.
• DIFFERENT
  1. Distinct; separate; not the same; other. "Five different churches." Addison. 2. Of various or contrary nature, form, or quality; partially or totally unlike; dissimilar; as, different kinds of food or drink; different states of health; different
• REDUCTIVE
  Tending to reduce; having the power or effect of reducing. -- n.
• CAUSAL
  A causal word or form of speech. Anglo-Saxon drencan to drench, causal of Anglo-Saxon drincan to drink. Skeat.
• REDUCTIVELY
  By reduction; by consequence.
• ANTICAUSODIC
  See ANTICAUSOTIC
• MESOCUNEIFORM; MESOCUNIFORM
  One of the bones of the tarsus. See 2d Cuneiform.
• INDIFFERENTLY
  In an indifferent manner; without distinction or preference; impartially; without concern, wish, affection, or aversion; tolerably; passably. That they may truly and indifferently minister justice, to the punishment of wickedness and vice, and to
• IRREDUCIBLE
  Incapable of being reduced to a simpler form of expression; as, an irreducible formula. Irreducible case , a particular case in the solution of a cubic equation, in which the formula commonly employed contains an imaginary quantity, and therefore
• ENTOCUNEIFORM; ENTOCUNIFORM
  One of the bones of the tarsus. See Cuneiform.