saturated

adjective

Unable to hold or contain more; full.

adjective

Soaked with moisture; drenched.

adjective

Combined with or containing all the solute that can normally be dissolved at a given temperature.

adjective

Relating to an organic compound, especially a fatty acid, containing the maximum number of hydrogen atoms and only single bonds between the carbon atoms.

adjective

Relating to minerals that can crystallize from magmas even in the presence of excess silica.

adjective

Filled to repletion; holding by absorption, or in solution, all that is possible.

adjective

Having its affinity satisfied; combined with all it can hold; — said of certain atoms, radicals, or compounds. Contrasted with unsaturated.

adjective

a color not diluted with white; a pure unmixed color, like those of the spectrum.

verb

Simple past tense and past participle of saturate.