Definition of Satisfactory
Satisfactory
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.
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Satisfactory Quotations
Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.
Chanakya
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
Erich Fromm
The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Among those who are satisfactory in this respect it is desirable to have represented as great a diversity of intellectual tradition, social milieu and personal character as possible.
Talcott Parsons
The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.
James A. Garfield
Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.
Samuel Butler
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.
Robertson Davies
It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name.
Samuel Alexander
I find linseed oil and white lead the most satisfactory mediums.
Edward Hopper
Satisfactory Translations
satisfactory in Dutch is bevredigend
satisfactory in French is satisfaisant, satisfaisante
satisfactory in German is befriedigend, befriedigende, befriedigend
satisfactory in Italian is soddisfacente
satisfactory in Spanish is satisfactorio
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