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saturated

saturated

1 3.9
A color that is very strong and not mixed with white or grey
  • adjective
  • /ˈsætʃəˌreɪtɪd/
translation icon : saturado
  • The artist used a saturated hue of blue for the sky in her painting.
  • saturated colors
  • bright and saturated
  • more saturated

Plus plus all the other colors would look super saturated and wrong.

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Examples

  • So I'm adding more of the color to make it more saturated, more pure, more intense.

  • And these are much more saturated in color and they're gorgeous, really pretty.

  • But how many of you wear bright full saturated blue?

  • And then this red is this fully saturated bright red that the is the back of the cards and the edge.

  • The ridiculous is just a really saturated deep red.

  • This is really pure orange saturated color right here.

  • The colors were brighter and more saturated than any I have ever seen.

    Fiction book (1996)
  • The look is often times very sort of matte skin, but very transparent matte skin with this beautiful kind of saturated red lip.

  • I grabbed one of our library's copies to look at this today, and the textures and saturated colors are just gorgeous.

    Blog text (23)
  • Colors are typical Olympus—slightly warm, reasonably saturated, and biased towards delivery of very pleasing skin tones.

    Blog text (16)

Synonyms

pure
vssaturated
390 1.0

Has nothing mixed with it

adds the idea of full intensity not just absence of mixing
rich
vssaturated
36 2.3

Deep and full in color or sound

focuses on pure undiluted color rather than general depth
vivid
vssaturated
23 3.0

Very bright and clear in color and easy to notice

emphasizes undiluted purity rather than brightness or noticeability
intense
vssaturated
16 3.4

A strong bright color that looks vivid

refers to full intensity and purity not just high saturation

Antonyms

291 1.0

Has very light color and often looks sick or afraid

unsaturated
  • Specialized
5.8

A color made less bright by mixing it with white or grey

Compounds

3.6

A type of fat found mainly in animal foods that has no double bonds in its chain

How Saturated

vivid
23 3.0
saturated
1 3.9
muted
10 4.2
faded
2.1

Surface Forms

saturated positive

Morphology

saturated = saturate (semi-transparent) = saturate + ed

The color sense is a metaphorical extension of 'filled' (not diluted), so while logically related it is a figurative usage that may not be fully predictable for all learners.

Etymology

Saturated comes from the old Latin root satur- meaning 'full'. A saturated color is 'full' and pure, not mixed with white or grey, so it looks strong and bright.