单词 | unsatisfactorily |
释义 | unsatisfactorilyadv. (un- prefix1 5.) ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > insufficiency > [adverb] > inadequately poorlyc1230 unsatisfactorily1657 inadequatelya1691 the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > improbability, unlikeliness > [adverb] > unconvincingly unsatisfyingly1653 unsatisfactorily1657 weakly1662 unplausibly1706 implausibly1818 unpersuasively1855 unconvincingly1891 1657 F. Roberts in C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David (1872) III. 239 Augustine also expounds the words much to the same effect, but altogether as unsatisfactorily. 1685 R. Baxter Paraphr. New Test. A 3 Many..are too large and costly for this use: some..are unsatisfactorily brief. 1720 A. Pope Corr. (1956) II. 42 To shew you how very unsatisfactorily you write,..you've never told me how you do. 1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature IV. 11 Materialism, as I have repeatedly said, and I hope not unsatisfactorily proved, is [etc.]. 1838 G. P. R. James Life & Times Louis XIV III. 50 Completing that which had been thus imperfectly and unsatisfactorily begun. 1884 Law Rep.: Queen's Bench Div. 12 583 The scope and effect of an Act so unsatisfactorily framed. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < adv.1657 |
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