Satisfactual

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Causing someone to feel satisfied; satisfactory. dialectal, nonstandard

    "Bill will return to Washington and report the action of his "high j'int," and that will be all "satisfactual" for the common "good of the country.""

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"Bill will return to Washington and report the action of his "high j'int," and that will be all "satisfactual" for the common "good of the country.""

Etymology

Uncertain; apparently from satisfaction + -ual. Now chiefly associated with the 1946 song "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah" (see quotation below).

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