satiated · adj — pleasantly satisfied or full, as with food; sated. It carries an Arena rating of 1503, earned across 2 head-to-head judged battles.
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Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, satiated ranks #1,891 of 17,142 for Most Elegant Words, #3,624 of 17,141 for Words That Escaped Their Books, #4,314 of 17,139 for Most Beautiful Words, #7,653 of 17,159 for Most Vivid Words.
satiated is pronounced /ˈseɪʃɪeɪtɪd/.
Why “satiated” is a great word
The state of being pleasantly and comfortably full, having had just enough to quell appetite or desire. From the Latin satiare ("to fill, satisfy"), from satis ("enough"). Unlike sated, which signals a brute cessation of need, or surfeited, which warns of a cloying, sickening excess, to be satiated is to dwell in the golden mean of fulfillment. It is the quiet push-back from the dinner plate, the contented sigh after a long-awaited reunion, the gentle lull of ambition momentarily stilled—a perfect, fleeting equilibrium where wanting ceases and abundance, for once, feels exactly sufficient.
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- Pleasantly satisfied or full, as with food; satede.g.“But Sophia's mother was not the woman to brook defiance. After a few moments' vain remonstrance her husband complied. His manner and appearance were suggestive of a satiated sea-lion.” — 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 6, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
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