saturated

Verb

Plain form saturate

Third-person singular saturates

Past tense saturated

Past participle saturated

Present participle saturating

1. The past tense and past participle of saturate.

Adjective

Positive saturated

Comparative more saturated

Superlative most saturated

1. (not comparable) Something that is saturated is full; it cannot hold or contain any more.
2. (comparable) Soaked or drenched with moisture.
3. (not comparable); (chemistry) Containing all the solute that can normally be dissolved at a given temperature.
4. (chemistry) Having all available valence bonds filled; especially of any organic compound containing only single bonds between carbon atoms.

Related words

• saturation
• unsaturated