English Explanatory Dictionary

saturated

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. simple past and past participle of saturate
adj
  1. Full; unable to hold or contain any more.
  2. Soaked or drenched with moisture.
  3. Containing all the solute that can normally be dissolved at a given temperature.
  4. Having all available valence bonds filled; especially of any organic compound containing only single bonds between carbon atoms.
  5. Equal to a union of equivalence classes of ≡; such that if x∈S and x≡y then y∈S.
  6. Saturated with respect to the equivalence relation x≡y⟺f(x)=f(y) (the kernel, noun sense 10, of f).
  7. Conforming to saturation arithmetic.
  8. Having a high level of saturation (in various senses).

Pronunciation

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Word forms

saturated more saturated most saturated

Synonyms

drenched sodden bewatered damp dripping drunk humid irriguous madid moist moisty overwatered plashy saturated soaked soggy soppy spewy spongy squidgy thoan thone undried watered waterlogged watery wet wetter than an otter's pocket wiery

Related words

saturate saturation saturity

Derived words

disaturated hypersaturated isosaturated monosaturated monounsaturated nonsaturated polysaturated polyunsaturated saturated fat saturated fatty acid saturatedly saturatedness saturated solution saturated steam saturated vapor pressure saturated zone semisaturated subsaturated supersaturated trisaturated undersaturated unsaturated
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