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Another word for unsatisfactory

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Adjective

  1. Below a standard of quality

    Idioms:
    See also:

    good

  2. Tending to discourage, retard, or make more difficult

    See also:

    help

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Another word for unsatisfactory

Modifier
  1. See also:

    poor

    Antonyms:
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Sentence Examples

  • Primary education is in a very unsatisfactory state, and primary schools very scarce.

  • The historians of the day give us but imperfect records or make unsatisfactory allusions.

  • It is profoundly unsatisfactory to regard mechanism as the whole ultimate truth.

  • Every place seemed unsatisfactory, but worst of all was his customary couch in the study.

  • This system proved unsatisfactory, and in 1869 was abandoned.

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