satisfactually
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
6
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a way that involves satisfaction or makes someone satisfied; satisfactorily, satisfiedly.
Example Sentences
- "My Anſwer is, that tho' the true God cannot be worſhipped nor known to the Satisfaction of the Soul, under the higheſt reaſonable Ructitude or Sanctification, till the aforeſaid time is commenced; yet there is a new Heart provided, by which the true God is as clearly ſeen, and as ſatisfactually underſtood, and as truly worſhipped as he will be at the Reſtitution of all Things."
- "He sets the figurine down, clasps his hand to his breast and smiles satisfactually."
- "Having said this, I have to return now to what is the sort of proposal or the wager implicit in my paper, which is that even if one accepts that during this period (roughly from about 1790 to 1850) the defining forms through which we come to know the art of our own century become fixed and established in all their contradictory plurality, then how is it that we can satisfactually start to analyse them and to see how our historical knowledge of them might be important for present day practice?"
- "A complex decision tree analysis led to the development of the score and initial validation at development found the score predicted mortality satisfactually when used as an aggregate score and not calculating absolute mortality risk."
Etymology
Possibly from satisfactual + -ly, although satisfactual is attested significantly later and in different contexts. Alternatively, a nonstandard variant of satisfactorily, especially in non-native speakers' English.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more satisfactually (comparative)
most satisfactually (superlative)