1.
[syn: disappointing, dissatisfactory, unsatisfying]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Dissatisfactory \Dis*sat`is*fac"to*ry\, a.
Causing dissatisfaction; unable to give content;
unsatisfactory; displeasing.
[1913 Webster]
To have reduced the different qualifications in the
different States to one uniform rule, would probably
have been as dissatisfactory to some of the States, as
difficult for the Convention. --A. Hamilton.
-- Dis*sat`is*fac"to*ri*ness, n.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
dissatisfactory
adj 1: not up to expectations; "a disappointing performance from
one who had seemed so promising" [syn: disappointing,
dissatisfactory, unsatisfying]