SATISFACTORILY Synonyms: 75 Similar and Opposite Words

satisfactorily

adverb

Definition of satisfactorily next

as in nicely

in a satisfactory way the matter has been resolved satisfactorily

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as in enough

in or to a degree or quantity that meets one's requirements or satisfaction supplied us satisfactorily, if not lavishly, with meals during our stay

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Recent Examples of satisfactorily The bid effort called for explaining how Arrowhead could be contoured to FIFA specifications, an issue that the Chiefs weren’t able to answer satisfactorily before 1994. —

Kansas City Star, 15 May 2026 The easiest to do that with might be David Moller Wolfe, who has been unable to dislodge Hugo Bueno from the team but who has generally performed satisfactorily when called up in his debut season. —

Steve Madeley, New York Times, 12 May 2026 The judge’s order stated that Empower continues to fail to perform satisfactorily despite the quality improvement plans, corrective actions and other remedial measures put in place by the state, and poses imminent danger to the children under its care. —

Jane Harper, Dallas Morning News, 18 Mar. 2026 Maybe most readers really do feel it’s been satisfactorily replaced by the Tomatometer and Amazon customer reviews and friends on Goodreads. —

John Williams, The Atlantic, 20 Feb. 2026 Greg’s just not that interesting a villain, and whatever Season 3 was doing with him didn’t satisfactorily pay off or, at worst, felt like an extended setup for a Season 4. —

Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 7 Jan. 2026 The paintings are serious works of deliberate construction which read satisfactorily as abstractions not unrelated to the work of Caio Fonseca. —

Erin Parish, Miami Herald, 5 Dec. 2025 Fisher has agreed to pay $1,000 to enter a yearlong diversion program that, if completed satisfactorily, could end in the trespass charge's being dismissed. —

Meriam Bouarrouj, NBC news, 3 Dec. 2025 The explosion of data and increasing customer expectations have made machine learning (ML) essential to delivering satisfactorily against enterprise customer expectations. —

Glenn Katz, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025

Recent Examples of Synonyms for satisfactorily

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Exceptions include Rialto Pictures’ rerelease of Carol Reed’s classic 1949 film noir The Third Man, starring Orson Wells and written by Graham Greene, which did nicely at two theaters in new 35mm prints struck from an original internegative.

— Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 14 June 2026
Available in black, white, or midnight blue, the headset features matte plastic earcups with big, soft memory foam earpads wrapped in a nicely supple faux leather.

— Will Greenwald, PC Magazine, 14 June 2026