saturated
adjective
[ ˈsatʃəreɪtɪd ]
• holding as much water or moisture as can be absorbed; thoroughly soaked.
• "a mass of saturated air decreases in temperature as it rises in the atmosphere"
Similar:
soaked,
soaking,
soaking wet,
wet through,
sopping,
sopping wet,
sodden,
dripping,
dripping wet,
wringing wet,
drenched,
streaming wet,
soaked to the skin,
like a drowned rat,
waterlogged,
soggy,
squelchy,
heavy,
muddy,
swampy,
boggy,
• (of an organic molecule) containing the greatest possible number of hydrogen atoms, without carbon–carbon double or triple bonds.
• "saturated hydrocarbons"
• (of colour) very bright, full, and free from an admixture of white.
• "intense and saturated colour"
saturate
verb
• cause (something) to become thoroughly soaked with water or other liquid so that no more can be absorbed.
• "the soil is saturated"
Similar:
soak,
drench,
waterlog,
wet through,
wet,
souse,
steep,
douse,
impregnate,
ret,
drouk,
sop,
Opposite:
dry out,
Origin:
late Middle English (as an adjective in the sense ‘satisfied’): from Latin saturat- ‘filled, glutted’, from the verb saturare, from satur ‘full’. The early sense of the verb (mid 16th century) was ‘satisfy’; the noun dates from the 1950s.
