satisfactory

a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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satisfactory (ˌsætɪsˈfæktərɪ, -trɪ)

—*adj*
1.	adequate or suitable; acceptable: a satisfactory answer
2.	giving satisfaction
3.	constituting or involving atonement, recompense, or expiation for sin

satis'factorily

—*adv*

satis'factoriness

—n

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satisfactory sat·is·fac·to·ry (sāt'ĭs-fāk'tə-rē)
adj.
Providing satisfaction sufficient to meet a demand or requirement.

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Example sentences

Two and a half millennia of debate have, however, failed to produce a

satisfactory answer.

The first is that she has made satisfactory arrangements for the remainder of

her long life.

Neither approach provides a satisfactory view of what is uniquely human.

Moreover, neither technology nor major military or similar efforts have

provided a satisfactory solution to the problem.

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