sated

American  

[sey-tid] / ˈseɪ tɪd /

adjective

1. fully satisfied.

   After that deep bowl of superb salad, I left sated and content.

2. overfilled with or overexposed to something to the point of being unable to bear more; glutted, as with food, pleasure, etc..

   Congratulations for adding flavor to an old debate being forced upon a sated populace.

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verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of sate.

Etymology

Origin of sated

sate ¹ ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

But his taste for adventure was far from sated.

From The Wall Street Journal

At 33, soon to be 34, there's still no sign of him being sated by all the success, which is probably the very characteristic that has put him in the history books.

From BBC

In fact, give him those and his appetite for golfing success would be finally sated.

From BBC

Celtic bombed out of the Europa League in his first season but then went on a 23-game unbeaten run on home fronts, so the fans were sated.

From BBC

The result is an elegantly wrought documentary that pulls off the trick of leaving viewers sated yet also craving more.

From New York Times

Related Words

• adequate
• big
• chock-full
• complete
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• entire
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• packed
• stocked
• sufficient