sated

[sey-tid]

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.

verb

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of sated¹

sate ¹ ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

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.

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

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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.

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

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And any maternal instincts that I ever had, as small as they were, were absolutely sated by this character.

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