Usually means: Not meeting expected standards, inadequate.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word unsatisfactory:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. unsatisfactory: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. unsatisfactory: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. unsatisfactory: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. unsatisfactory: Collins English Dictionary
  5. unsatisfactory: Vocabulary.com
  6. Unsatisfactory, unsatisfactory: Wordnik
  7. unsatisfactory: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. unsatisfactory: Wiktionary
  9. unsatisfactory: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. unsatisfactory: Dictionary.com
  11. unsatisfactory: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. unsatisfactory: Rhymezone
  13. unsatisfactory: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. unsatisfactory: Free Dictionary
  15. unsatisfactory: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. unsatisfactory: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. unsatisfactory: Legal dictionary

(Note: See unsatisfactorily as well.)

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adjective:  Inadequate, substandard or not satisfactory.

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