Definition of Satisfactory

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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

For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. His hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it that he might learn by experiment what argument taught.
Roger Bacon

The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture.
John Kenneth Galbraith

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

Intercourse with a woman is sometimes a satisfactory substitute for masturbation. But it takes a lot of imagination to make it work.
Karl Kraus

The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least satisfactory, can possibly be derived; and I long daily to die more and more to it; even though I obtain not that comfort from spiritual things which I earnestly desire.
David Brainerd

I find linseed oil and white lead the most satisfactory mediums.
Edward Hopper

It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name.
Samuel Alexander

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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