Another word for unsatisfactory
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Adjective
Below a standard of quality
- Having insufficient wealth to meet the necessities or comforts of life or to live in a manner considered acceptable in a society.
- Relating to or characterized by poverty:
- Deficient or lacking in a specified resource or quality:
- A tramp; a vagrant.
- A lazy or shiftless person, especially one who seeks to live solely by the support of others.
- An incompetent, insignificant, or obnoxious person:
- Not achieving an adequate standard; poor:
- Immoral or evil.
- Vulgar or obscene:
See also:Tending to discourage, retard, or make more difficult
- Improper; unseemly:
- Unfavorable or adverse:
- Likely to be a hindrance; disadvantageous:
- Having or showing opposition; adverse:
- Expressing, containing, or consisting of a negation, refusal, or denial:
- Indicating opposition or resistance:
- Unpleasant; disagreeable:
- Detrimental; unfavorable.
- Acting or serving to oppose; antagonistic:
- Contrary to one's interests or welfare; harmful or unfavorable:
- Moving in an opposite or opposing direction:
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Another word for unsatisfactory
Modifier
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- Lacking an essential quality or element:
- Inadequate in amount or degree; insufficient:
- Highly disturbing emotionally.
- Highly offensive; indecent or distasteful.
- Very vivid or intense in tone:
- Not received with pleasure into one's company or home:
- Unwanted or disagreeable:
- Not to one's liking; unpleasant or offensive.
- Having a quarrelsome, bad-tempered manner.
- Not acceptable; unsatisfactory.
- Causing anger, displeasure, or resentment:
- Disagreeable to the senses:
- Making a physical or military attack:
- Causing distress or worry; upsetting or unsettling.
- Present participle of disturb.
- that vexes
- Tending to cause discomfort, uneasiness or alarm; unsettling; troubling; upsetting.
- Eliciting or deserving regret:
- Not likely to please; objectionable:
- Not wanted:
- A person regarded as undesirable:
- Unattractive, dislikable, objectionable.
- Present participle of displease.
- Not adequate to fulfill a need or meet a requirement; insufficient.
- Not up to expectations or hopes:
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