saturated

6 definitions • 7 examples

completely wet:

It's pouring down outside - I'm absolutely saturated!

The drainage system prevents the soil from becoming saturated.

completely filled with something so that no more can be added:

Even with 10,000 users, the server is not saturated.

The airwaves are saturated with advertising.

If the market for a product is saturated, there is more of the product available than there are people who want to buy it. :

With western markets more or less saturated, international phone companies are looking to the developing world.

The company operated in a competitive and heavily saturated environment.

(of colours in photographs, films, or paintings) bright or deep:

He covered large canvases with vigorous brushstrokes and blooms of saturated colour.

containing all of a substance that can be absorbed

Saturated also describes a hydrocarbon in which the carbon atoms are joined to as many hydrogen atoms as possible.