saturated
飽和した
解説 Definition
saturated は saturate（飽和させる、十分に染み込ませる）の過去形・過去分詞で、形容詞として「飽和した、十分に染み込んだ」という意味です。液体や色、情報などが限界まで満たされている状態を表すときに使います。
Completely filled, soaked, or supplied with as much of a substance or quality as can be absorbed or accommodated. It can describe material full of liquid, a market containing too many similar products, or another situation that has reached its effective limit.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
saturated は saturate の過去形・過去分詞で、形容詞では「限界まで満たされた」状態を表します。語末 e を取って -ed を付け、発音は /ˈsætʃəreɪtɪd/。cloth saturated with water、a saturated market のように saturated with と組み合わせ、液体が染み切る場面から市場に製品があふれる比喩へ広げて覚えます。
Begin with the verb “saturate,” meaning to fill something to its limit. For “saturated,” the final silent e is dropped before -ed is added, and the ending is pronounced /ɪd/. Picture a cloth so full of rainwater that it cannot absorb more; this physical image extends naturally to “a saturated market,” where similar products have filled the available demand. The common pattern “saturated with” identifies what has filled the thing: soil saturated with water or media saturated with advertising. Keep the idea “full to capacity” distinct from merely “wet” or “crowded.”
例文
The cloth was saturated with rainwater.
その布は雨水でびっしょり濡れていました。
The market is saturated with similar products.
市場は似たような製品で飽和しています。
The soil became saturated after two days of heavy rain.
二日間の大雨のあと、土は水を含みきった状態になりました。
saturated の類義語・関連語
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saturated の語源・成り立ち Etymology
saturated は saturate の過去分詞で、ラテン語 saturare「いっぱいに満たす」、さらに satur「満ちた」に由来します。語源の核が「十分・満腹」なので、液体でも色でも情報でも「もう入らないほど満ちた」がこの語の感覚です。関連語は satiate, satisfy。
“Saturated” is the past and past-participle form of “saturate” and is also used as an adjective. “Saturate” comes from Latin saturare, “to fill fully,” based on satur, meaning “full” or “sated.” The historical core is therefore completeness or fullness. The word first applies naturally to substances holding as much liquid or dissolved material as possible and extends metaphorically to colors, markets, information, and other things filled to an effective limit.
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