unsatisfactory

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Not good enough
be not onidiom
beneath
cop
deficiency
deficiency in something
intolerable
intolerably
lamely
lameness
leave a lot to be desiredidiom
sadness
second-rate
sub-optimum
subaverage
suboptimal
unsatisfactorily
unsatisfactory
unsound
unworthily
unworthy

Examples of unsatisfying

unsatisfying
In the details, however, it turns out to be quite unsatisfying.
It is a comfortless unsatisfying trade, that of living upon other people's money.
As unsatisfying as it sounds, clarification of the phenotype and studies of etiology and pathogenesis are likely to progress in a circular and iterative fashion.
Although he respected the ' spiritual power ' of his conservative upbringing, he was certain that ' the old has become increasingly unsatisfying ' for many in his generation.
All of this could appear rather unsatisfying for someone looking for the meaning of a particle.
It has to be said, though, that there is something unsatisfying about this quotation.
His attempt to make anti-realism palatable comes closer than any other, but remains unsatisfying.
The argument here, in the final section of her last chapter, is much less convincing, and ultimately unsatisfying.
As it is, however, the essay remains more suggestive than definitive, and the discussion of more contemporary post-colonial development is particularly unsatisfying.
However, manipulation of the template-mapping approach seems unsatisfying and unexplanatory.
This response, however, is unsatisfying for a couple of reasons.
This answer is highly unsatisfying, as the reason for putting on plays should be their relevance and not their inclusion in a cultural canon.
There is also something deeply unsatisfying about the agent-centred approach taken by the prudential-reasons account.
Second, personal ethical dilemmas pit equally central values against each other, causing any resolution to be temporary and unsatisfying.
But providing some staging just made the absence of the key element, the transformation into a tree, all the more unsatisfying.
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