Dissatisfactory

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Dissatisfactory \Dis*sat`is*fac"to*ry\, a.
     Causing dissatisfaction; unable to give content;
     unsatisfactory; displeasing.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           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.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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