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Definition: Satisfy |
SatisfyVerb1. Fulfil the requirements or expectations of. 2. Make happy or satisfied. 3. Fill or meet a want or need. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "satisfy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Note: Satisfy \Sat"is*fy\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Satisfied; Satisfying.]. (references) |
Synonyms: SatisfySynonyms: fill (v), fulfil (v), fulfill (v), gratify (v), live up to (v), meet (v). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: dissatisfy (v), fall short of (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Answer | Explain; (interpret); solve; (unriddle); discover; a; fathom, hunt out; (inquire); satisfy, set at rest, determine. |
Belief | Know, know for certain; have know, make no doubt; doubt not; be, rest assured; Adjective: persuade oneself, assure oneself, satisfy oneself; make up one's mind. |
Cause to be believed; Verb: satisfy, persuade, have the ear of, gain the confidence of, assure; convince, convict, convert; wean, bring round; bring over, win over; indoctrinate; (teach); cram down the throat; produce conviction, carry conviction; bring home to, drive home to. | |
Consent | Satisfy, meet one's wishes, settle, come to terms; not refuse; turn a willing ear; (willingness); jump at; deign, vouchsafe; promise. |
Content | Render content; Adjective: set at ease, comfort; set one's heart at ease, set one's mind at ease, set one's heart at rest, set one's mind at rest; speak peace; conciliate, reconcile, win over, propitiate, disarm, beguile; content, satisfy; gratify. |
Duty | Enter upon a duty, perform a duty, observe a duty, fulfill a duty, discharge a duty, adhere to a duty, acquit oneself of a duty, satisfy a duty, enter upon an obligation, perform an obligation, observe an obligation, fulfill an obligation, discharge an obligation, adhere to an obligation, acquit oneself of an obligation, satisfy an obligation; act one's part, redeem one's pledge, do justice to, be at one's post; do duty; do one's duty; (be virtuous). |
Observance | Verb: observe, comply with, respect, acknowledge, abide by; cling to, adhere to, be faithful to, act up to; meet, fulfill; carry out, carry into execution; execute, perform, keep, satisfy, discharge; do one's office. |
Pain | Bless, beatify; satisfy; gratify, desire slake, satiate, quench; indulge, humor, flatter, tickle; tickle the palate; (savory); regale, refresh; enliven; treat; amuse; take one's fancy, tickle one's fancy, hit one's fancy; meet one's wishes; win the heart, gladden the heart, rejoice the heart,bless, beatify; satisfy; gratify, desire slake, satiate, quench; indulge, humor, flatter, tickle; tickle the palate; (savory); regale, refresh; enliven; treat; amuse; take one's fancy, tickle one's fancy, hit one's fancy; meet one's wishes; win the heart, gladden the heart, rejoice the heart, warm the cockles of the heart; do one's heart good. |
Payment | Discharge, settle, quit, acquit oneself of; foot the bill; account with, reckon with, settle with, be even with, be quits with; strike a balance; settle accounts with, balance accounts with, square accounts with; quit scores; wipe off old scores, clear off old scores; satisfy; pay in full; satisfy all demands, pay in full of all demands; clear, liquidate; pay up, pay old debts. |
Reward | Verb: reward, recompense, repay, requite; remunerate, munerate; compensate; fee; pay one's footing; (pay); make amends, indemnify, atone; satisfy, acknowledge. |
Satiety | Verb: sate, satiate, satisfy, saturate; cloy, quench, slake, pall, glut., gorge, surfeit; bore; (weary); tire; (fatigue); spoil. |
Sufficiency | Verb: be sufficient; Adjective:; suffice, do, just do, satisfy, pass muster; have enough; Noun: eat. one's fill, drink one's fill, have one's fill; roll in, swim in; wallow in; (superabundance) ; wanton. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | The only performance that will satisfy you is when I play dead (North by Northwest; writing credit: Ernest Lehman) It's movement which uses the the pretext of the free movement of goods and men to accelerate the orders of the empire, which stangles us to satisfy its ambition (Vercingétorix; writing credit: Jacques Dorfmann; Rospo Pallenberg) Even with the hectic events of the day, Raymond Marble still finds time to satisfy his perverted urges (Pink Flamingos; writing credit: John Waters) Then provoke him, if that's going to satisfy your scruples (Funeral in Berlin; writing credit: Len Deighton; Evan Jones) I try to satisfy. (The Cheap Detective; writing credit: Neil Simon) | |
Lyrics | Like Snickers, guaranteed to satisfy (One Week; performing artist: Barenaked Ladies) Find someone to satisfy you (You May Be Right; performing artist: Billy Joel) And say the words you think will satisfy me (Dreamtime; performing artist: Daryl Hall) To satisfy the hoax (THE COURT OF THE CRIMSON KING; performing artist: King Crimson) I just want to satisfy ya (Sweet Thing; performing artist: Mary J. Blige) | |
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| Purr; meow; content; rumble; appease; bewitch; captivate; charm; delight; enrapture; gladden; gratify; humor; indulge; make happy; mollify; placate; reconcile; satisfy; suffice; thrill; tickle; please; feline. | |
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Margaret Oliphant | For everybody knows that it requires very little to satisfy the gentlemen, if a woman will only give her mind to it. |
Mencius | To pretend to satisfy one's desires by possessions is like putting out a fire with straw. |
Oliver Goldsmith | People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable. |
Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky | Brahms has very little melodic invention . . . he excites and irritates our musical senses without wishing to satisfy them. |
Thomas Fuller | Riches enlarge rather than satisfy appetites. |
Tryon Edwards | Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end. |
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Magna Carta | 1215 | Neither we nor our bailiffs will seize any land or rent for any debt, as long as the chattels of the debtor are sufficient to repay the debt; nor shall the sureties of the debtor be distrained so long as the principal debtor is able to satisfy the debt; and if the principal debtor shall fail to pay the debt, having nothing wherewith to pay it, then the sureties shall answer for the debt; and let them have the lands and rents of the debtor, if they desire them, until they are indemnified for the debt which they have paid for him, unless the principal debtor can show proof that he is discharged thereof as against the said sureties. (reference) |
John Locke | 1690 | But I thought Hooker alone might be enough to satisfy those men, who relying on him for their ecclesiastical polity, are by a strange fate carried to deny those principles upon which he builds it. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | The Central Commission shall decide on the steps to be taken to ensure that other vessels satisfy the conditions of the general regulations applying to navigation on the Rhine. (reference) |
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | 1963 | Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1923) |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | A very little quiet reflection was enough to satisfy Emma as to the nature of her agitation on hearing this news of Frank Churchill |
Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | I hoped, but in vain, that this would satisfy her, and that she would ask no more questions |
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency | Douglas Adams | That would satisfy a doctor, that’s what they always did on television -- if no mist formed on the mirror, there was no breath |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He had acted with impetuosity, according to his wont, having, a despot become a slave, but one thought, to satisfy Marius |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | To satisfy my curious reader, it may be sufficient to describe Lorbrulgrud |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | In this course which our ancestors took there was a show of prudence at least, as if their principle were to satisfy the more pressing wants first |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | A simple answer, such as "I was born this way" or "God made me this way" is often enough to satisfy curiosity. (references) | |
These changes can be readily made while maintaining intake of protein, vitamins, and minerals to satisfy the Recommended Dietary Allowances of the Food and Nutrition Board of the National Research Council. (references) | ||
Business | Domestic output of PP can only satisfy half of local demand. (references) | |
Imports satisfy a significant portion of Canada’s demand for flooring products. (references) | ||
On average, the outputs of various engineering plastics satisfy 36% of the market demand. (references) | ||
Children | Burundi | The law provides for children's health and welfare, but the Government cannot adequately satisfy the needs of children and, in particular, of the large population of children orphaned by the violence since 1993 and by HIV/AIDS. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Paraguay | At year's end, Congress was considering new provisions that would to satisfy the constitutional issues raised by the Supreme Court. (references) |
Nigeria | Decree 60 required that publications be registered by the Council annually through a system entitled "Documentation of Newspapers." In applying for registration, publishers were expected to submit their mission statements and objectives and could be denied registration if their objectives failed to satisfy the Council. (references) | |
Economic History | Japan | They satisfy tax, customs and other legal requirements. (references) |
Haiti | Haiti does not produce enough milling products to satisfy local demand. (references) | |
Ghana | A foreign investor is required to satisfy a minimum capital requirement. (references) | |
Human Rights | Guatemala | In practice, arresting officers frequently fail to satisfy legal requisites. (references) |
Gambia | During the year, many local police stations and the NIA changed their procedures and practices to satisfy the constitutional requirement that any detainee be released or charged within 72 hours. (references) | |
Minorities | Croatia | Non-Croats must satisfy more stringent requirements through naturalization to obtain citizenship. (references) |
Political Economy | ITALY | The regulations appear to generally satisfy U.S. industry, with some exceptions. (references) |
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO | Regulatory Policies: All imports of food and drugs must satisfy prescribed standards. (references) | |
HONDURAS | Although there is a clear preference on the part of the government for new foreign investment in export industries, there are no officially mandated requirements that foreign investors must satisfy as a condition for investing in Honduras. (references) | |
Political Rights | Singapore | For example, opposition members are much less likely to be able to satisfy the requirement that they have experience in managing the financial affairs of a large institution, since many of the country's large institutions are government-run or linked to the Government. (references) |
Trade | Philippines | It is the importer's responsibility to satisfy BFAD requirements. (references) |
Mauritius | Under the agreement, ACP products that satisfy rules of origin criteria enter the EU duty- and quota-free. (references) | |
Travel | Canada | Business travelers and dependents must also satisfy any other admission requirements of the Canadian Immigration Act. (references) |
Taiwan | Meanwhile, many networking companies provide various Internet services to satisfy the demand from domestic businesspeople and firms. (references) | |
Oman | U.S. firms wishing to export to Oman must be prepared to satisfy Omani concerns regarding price, shipping schedules, availability of spare parts, and obvious American participation in the relationship. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Hong Kong | In cases where the claimed relationship as husband and wife does not satisfy the immigration officer, applications are rejected. (references) |
Japan | An ILO committee has called on the Government to take additional measures to satisfy individual Chinese and Korean victims of forced labor during the war. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | INFERIAE,n. [Latin] Among the Greeks and Romans, sacrifices for propitation of the Dii Manes, or souls of the dead heroes; for the pious ancients could not invent enough gods to satisfy their spiritual needs, and had to have a number of makeshift deities, or, as a sailor might say, jury-gods, which they made out of the most unpromising materials. It was while sacrificing a bullock to the spirit of Agamemnon that Laiaides, a priest of Aulis, was favored with an audience of that illustrious warrior's shade, who prophetically recounted to him the birth of Christ and the triumph of Christianity, giving him also a rapid but tolerably complete review of events down to the reign of Saint Louis. The narrative ended abruptly at the point, owing to the inconsiderate crowing of a cock, which compelled the ghosted King of Men to scamper back to Hades. There is a fine mediaeval flavor to this story, and as it has not been traced back further than Pere Brateille, a pious but obscure writer at the court of Saint Louis, we shall probably not err on the side of presumption in considering it apocryphal, though Monsignor Capel's judgment of the matter might be different; and to that I bow -- wow. |
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George Washington | 1789-1797 | To satisfy the complaints of the latter, prosecutions have been instituted for the violences committed upon them. |
James Madison | 1809-1817 | I think it will be proper, with respect to the judiciary powers, to satisfy the public mind on those points which I have mentioned. |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | Our experience ought to satisfy us that our progress under the most correct and provident policy will not be exempt from danger. |
Dwight Eisenhower | 1953-1961 | Across all continents, nearly a billion people seek, sometimes almost in desperation, for the skills and knowledge and assistance by which they may satisfy from their own resources, the material wants common to all mankind. |
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| "Satisfy" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 90.33% of the time. "Satisfy" is used about 1,963 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 90.33% | 1,773 | 4,761 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 9.67% | 190 | 22,288 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,963 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "satisfy": satisfy a need ♦ satisfy demand ♦ satisfy everybody ♦ satisfy one's test ♦ satisfy oneself ♦ satisfy the demand for smth.. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "satisfy": satisfy-schmatisfy. | |
Ending with "satisfy": deemed-to-satisfy. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "satisfy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | siguroj (acquire, assure, avouch, bear, certify, come by, cover, ensure, find, fit out, furnish, guy, haven, house, indemnify, insure, keep, lock up, obtain, procure, provide, purvey, reassure, secure, supply, take care of, underwrite, vouch, warrant, win), shlyej (clear, discharge, expiate, forgive, liquidate, make good, make up, purge, redeem, settle, Square, work off), plotësoj (amplify, appease, complement, complete, consummate, draw, fill, fill in, fill up, flesh, fulfil, fulfill, grant, gratify, indulge, make good, make out, make up, meet, perfect, perform, process, realize, refill, replenish, supplement, supply), kënaq (appease, content, enchant, feast, gratify, humor, humour, indulge, please, regale, suffice), jap kënaqësi. (various references) | |
Arabic | وفى بمطالب أو شروط, وفى ب (fulfil, fulfill, redeem), سر (breeze, brighten, delight, divert, gladden, gratify, mystery, please, pleasure, reserve, secret, steer), عوض (atone, indemnity, make, make amends, make up, make up for, offset, recompense, recoup, recuperate, redeem, reimburse, remunerate, requital, restore, retrieve, setoff, substitute), رضى (accept, be content with, cater for, feed, get on with smth., gratify, please, pleasure, sate, tickle, unhand). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | утолявам (quench, satiate, slake, still), уверявам (affirm, assure, profess, reassure, warrant), убеждавам (admonish, argue, assure, coax, convince, exhort, induce, lead, persuade, press, prevail, talk over, urge, win), удовлетворявам (gratify, indulge, please, suffice, supply), спазвам (adhere, comply, hold, keep, mind, observe, preserve, respect), разсейвам (dispel, disperse, dissipate, distract, illumine, lay, put off, quell, resolve, scatter), харесвам на (suit), обезщетявам (compensate, indemnify, make up, offset, pay, recompense, recoup), задоволявам (answer, cater for, content, cover, fulfil, fulfill, gratify, indulge, please, salve, serve, slake, suffice, suit), посрещам (affront, face, greet, meet, see in), погасявам дълг, изпълнявам (accomplish, accord, act up to, carry into effect, carry out, complete, effectuate, execute, exercise, fill, fulfil, fulfill, handle, implement, make up, perform, play, practise, pursue, put into effect, put through, redeem, verify). (various references) | |
Chinese | 满意 (satisfaction, satisfied, satisfying), 充 (fill, fulfill, full, substitute, sufficient, to act in place of). (various references) | |
Czech | splnit (accomplish, carry out, discharge, fulfil, fulfill, implement, keep, perform, redeem), uspokojit (appease, gratify, please, tickle), ukojit (assuage, quench, sate, satiate, slake), uhasit (assuage, douse, extinguish, put down, quench, sate, satiate, slake), přesvìdèit (convince, persuade). (various references) | |
Danish | skatkammerbeviser inklusive de skatkammerbeviser,som tegnes af de finansielle institutioner i forbindelse med de obligatoriske reserver (treasury bills including those which are taken up by credit institutions to satisfy their compulsory reserve requirements), opfyldelse af forbrugernes behov,for saa vidt angaar importerede varer (to satisfy the needs of users in respect of imported products), opfylde betingelserne for ret til naturalydelser (to satisfy the conditions for acquisition of the right to benefits in kind), at stemme overens med konstruktionsparametrene (to satisfy design parameters), at opfylde krav (to satisfy reqirements), at opfylde et antal regler (to satisfy a number of rules), at opfylde et antal forskrifter (to satisfy a number of rules), at opfylde behov (to satisfy reqirements). (various references) | |
Dutch | tegemoetkomen aan (meet with), paaien (meet with), bevredigen (meet with). (various references) | |
Esperanto | kontentigi (meet with). (various references) | |
Farsi | قانع کردن (Content, Convince), خرسندکردن (Content, Gladden), خشنودکردن , راضی کردن (Bate, Content, Sate). (various references) | |
Finnish | tyydyttää (gratify), ravita (feed, foster, nourish, support). (various references) | |
French | contenter, satisfaire. (various references) | |
German | zufriedenstellen (be satisfactory, content, gratify, meet with, please, suffice, to content, to satisfy), befriedigen (assuage, be satisfactory, gratify, meet, meet with, please, sate, to assuage, to satisfy), genügen (be enough, be sufficient, fulfill, suffice). (various references) | |
Greek | ικανοποιώ (content, fulfill, gratify, indulge, sate, suffice). (various references) | |
Hebrew | למלא (complete, fill, fill up, fulfill, pervade, stuff), ל"שביע רצון (gratify, meet wishes, satiate, suffice, suit), ל"שבע (gratify, satiate), ל"רצות (count, discourse, enumerate, lecture, please), ל" יח את ""עת (calm, please, quiet down, quieten), לבוא על ספוקו, לספק (furnish, give, please, provide, purvey, supply). (various references) | |
Hungarian | teljesít (accomplish, achieve, comply, consummate, fulfil, fulfill, implement, keep, observe, perform, to accomplish, to carry out, to comply with, to deliver the goods, to follow the sea, to fulfil, to get through, to implement, to make good, to perform, to vouchsafe, vouchsafe), kielégít (appease, gratify, sate, satiate, slake, suffice, to appease, to assuage, to content, to flesh, to glut, to indulge, to sate, to satiate, to suffice, to supply). (various references) | |
Indonesian | puas (complagent, pleased), memuaskan (satisfactory). (various references) | |
Italian | accontentare (content, please). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 満たす (to fill, to fulfill, to ingratiate, to satisfy). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おうずる (to accept, to answer, to meet, to respond, to satisfy), おうじる (to accept, to apply for, to comply with, to respond, to satisfy), そう (all, aspect, bed, cellar, class, conception, countenance, depository, destroy, elevator, ever, ex-, feel pain, former, formerly, general, go around, godown, granary, gross, idea, layer, magazine, monk, never, once before, originate, phase, priest, seam, start, stream, suffer, thought, to accompany, to be added to, to be adjusted to, to become married, to comply with, to follow, to marry, to meet, to run along, to satisfy, to suit, treasury, warehouse, whole), よがる (to be proud, to feel satisfied, to satisfy oneself), じょうけ"がそろう (to satisfy the requirements), みたす (to fill, to fulfill, to ingratiate, to satisfy), はら'みたす (to satisfy one's appetite). (various references) | |
Korean | 만족시키십시". (various references) | |
Manx | saiaghey (saturate), saasaghey (contrive, remedy), jannoo magh (content, deduce, define, determine, divine, make out, purvey, purveyance, seek out, supply, think out, work out, work out as position), cooilleeney (achieve, achievement, acquit, acquittal, avenge, compensate, compensation, consummate, consummation, execute, fulfil, fulfilment, punishment, satisfaction, vengeance). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | atisfysay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | satisfazer (appease, assuage, content, fill, gladden, gratify, indulge, measure up to, pay, please, pleasing, pleasure, settle, slake, stay, suffice, suit, wreak). (various references) | |
Romanian | satisface (allay, answer, appease, cater for, content, fill, grant, gratify, humor, humour, meet, pander to, please, serve, suit), rãspunde la (acknowledge, answer, overbear, reciprocate, return), plãti o datorie (discharge, redeem a debt), mulţumi (acknowledge, cater for, content, fill, gratify, meet, please, recompense, reward, suit, thank), ispãşi (atone for, expiate), fi satisfãcut, da satisfacţie, convinge (blarney, bring, bring over, coax, convince, cozen into, determine, draw, get, induce, persuade, reason, settle), compensa (atone for, cancel, compensate, counterbalance, counterpoise, countervail, indemnify, make up for, offset, recoup, redeem), astâmpãra (appease, calm down, quiet), achita (acquit, clear, defray, discharge, exonerate from, liquidate, pay, pay down, pay off, quit, receipt, remit, Square, trace), îndulci (alleviate, break, delight, dulcify, mellow, modify, palliate, smooth, soften, sugar, sweeten, tame), îndestula (fill, victual), îndeplini (accomplish, achieve, acquit, do, execute, fill, finish, fulfil, go through, make good, obey, perform, put through, realize), împlini (accomplish, achieve, be, complete, consummate, fill, fulfil, grant, justify, serve). (various references) | |
Russian | удовлетворять (content, gratify, meet, redress, respond, satisfies). (various references) | |
Scottish | s saich (satiate), toilich (be willing), taitinn (give delight, please, pleasing), dìol (avenge, pay, render). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zadovoljiti (fulfill, gratify, indulge, please, suit, supply), utoliti (pacify, quench, slake, stay), ugoditi (accommodate, please), udovoljiti (meet), namiriti (feed, settle, supply). (various references) | |
Spanish | complacer (accommodate, humor, humour, indulge, lead on, meet with, oblige, pander to, please), satisfacer (answer, assuage, come up to, content, gratify, indulge, meet, please, provide, settle, suffice). (various references) | |
Swedish | tillfredsställa (content, feed, fill, gratify, indulge, indulge in, meet, pleasure, pleasure around, sate, satiate), mätta (be full, engorge, glut, have enough, impregnate, sate, satiate, saturate). (various references) | |
Turkish | yerine getirmek (accomplish, acquit oneself, answer, carry through, complete, discharge, execute, fulfil, fulfill, implement, make good, meet, observe, perform, put in force, redeem, serve, settle, stick to), tatmin etmek (content, gratify, satiate), memnun etmek (charm, comfort, content, gladden, gratify, humor, humour, indulge, make happy, oblige, please, rejoice, suit), karşılamak (answer, compensate, counterbalance, counterpoise, countervail, fulfil, fulfill, greet, make amends, meet, provide, provision, receive, recompense, recoup, redress, supply, take, welcome), inandırmak (assure, assure smb. that, convince, make believe, persuade, sell smb. on, talk smb. into smth., wash), ikna etmek (argue, argue smb. into smth., assure, bring, bring over, bring round, cajole, coax, convince, convince smb. of smth., dispose, draw, entice, fast-talk, have a way with, induce, influence, interest, jolly, persuade, prevail on, prevail upon, sell smb. on, wheedle, win, win smb. round), hoşnut etmek (content, delight, gratify, please), gidermek (allay, appease, avert, clear, dispel, disperse, dissipate, efface, eliminate, fulfil, fulfill, gratify, iron out, obviate, quench, remove, repair, resolve, slake, smooth away, smooth out, supply), doyurmak (feed, fill, sate, satiate, saturate, steep), cevap vermek (answer, reply, respond, talk back), ödemek (acquit, ante, ante up, atone for, clear, come across with, defray, disburse, discharge, domicil, domicile, domiciliate, fee, foot, fork out, fork over, fork up, give, indemnify, pay, pay for, pay in, pay out, pick up the tab, plonk down, quit, recoup, redeem, repay, retire, settle, shell out, spring, stump, stump up, to pay, wipe out). (various references) | |
Turkmen | kanagatlandyrmak (make someone content), gandyrmak (fill). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | радіти (gladden, joy), заспокоювати (appease, assuage, assure, becalm, calm, comfort, conciliate, cool down, ease, lull, mollify, plaster, propitiate, quell, quiet, quieten, relieve, salve, smooth, soften, soothe, still, tranquilize, tranquillize), задовольняти (answer, content, gratify, slake, suit), підходити (approach, become, befall, befit, beseem, come up to, draw on, like, near, nigh, pertain), переконувати (admonish, argue, assure, bring, certify, convince, expostulate, reason, talk over, urge). (various references) | |
Welsh | diwallu (supply), digoni (cook, suffice), bodloni (be content, content), boddio (please), boddhau (please). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | conpleam, conpleamus, conpleas, conpleat, conpleatur, conplebant, conplebantur, conplebis, conplebit, conplebitur, conplebo, conplebunt, conplebuntur, conplens, conplent, conplentes, conplerentur, conpleret, conpleretur, conplessent, conplesset, conplesti, conpleta, conpletae, conpletam, conplete, conpleti, conpletis, conpletum, conpleturus, conpletus, conpleverat, conpleverint, conpleveris, conpleverit, conplevero, conpleverunt, conplevit, conplevitque, expleant, explendos, explendum, explentibus, explere, expleret, expleta, explete, expleti, expletis, expletisque, expleto, expletum, expletus, expleverit, explevit, imple, impleam, impleamini, impleamur, impleamus, impleant, impleantque, impleantur, implearis, impleas, impleat, impleatis, impleatque, impleatur, implebant, implebat, implebimus, implebis, implebit, implebitis, implebitur, implebo, implebor, implebunt, implebuntur, implens, implent, implentes, impleo, implere, implerem, implerent, implerentur, impleret, impleretur, impleri, imples, implesset, implesti, implestis, implet, impleta, impletae, implete, impleti, impletique, impletis, impletisque, impletum, impletur, impletus, impleverant, impleverat, impleverint, impleveris, impleverit, implevero, impleverunt, implevi, implevimus, implevit, implevitque, insaturabilia, pacare, placeam, placeat, placebat, placebit, placebo, placebunt, placendum, placens, placent, placentem, placentes, placentia, placeo, placere, placerem, placeret, places, placet, placetur, placita, placitam, placito, placitos, placitum, placorem, placuerant, placuerat, placuerint, placueris, placuerit, placuerunt, placui, placuisse, placuisset, placuisti, placuit, placuitque, repleo, satiabitur, satiabor, satiabuntur, satiantur, satiarentur, satiari, satiat, satiata, satiatae, satiati, satiatur, satiatus, satiavit, satisfac, satisfacere, satisfacerent, saturaberis, saturabimini, saturabitur, saturabo, saturabunt, saturabuntur, saturamini, saturare, saturaremur, saturari, saturata, saturatae, saturati, saturatur, saturatus, saturavi, saturavit, saturemus, saturo. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | fyllan. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 6, Verse 30 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Ou qaumaston ean alw tiV kleptwn kleptei gar ina emplhsh thn yuchn peinwn |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Non grandis est culpae cum quis furatus fuerit furatur enim ut esurientem impleat animam |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Not gret is the blame, whan a man stelith; forsothe he steleth, that he fulfille the hungrende soule. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry; |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Men do not despise a thief, if he stealeth to satisfy his soul when he is hungry; |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Men do not have a low opinion of a thief who takes food when he is in need of it: |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Proverbs Chapter 6, Verse 30 |
| Cebuano | Ang mga tawo dili magatamay sa usa ka kawatan, kong siya mangawat Aron sa pagtagbaw sa iyang kaugalingon sa diha nga siya pagagutom: |
| Croatian | Ne sramote li lupeža sve ako je krao da gladan utoli glad: |
| Danish | Ringeagter man ikke Tyven, når han stjæler fot at stille sin Sult? |
| Dutch | Men doet een dief geen verachting aan, als hij steelt om zijn ziel te vullen, dewijl hij honger heeft; |
| Finnish | Eikö halveksita varasta, vaikka hän olisi nälissään varastanut hengenpiteikseen? |
| French | On ne tient pas pour innocent le voleur qui dérobe Pour satisfaire son appétit, quand il a faim; |
| German | Es ist einem Diebe nicht so große Schmach, ob er stiehlt, seine Seele zu sättigen, weil ihn hungert; |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Kalau orang mencuri makanan, sekalipun karena lapar, ia akan dihina. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Tak akan jangan orang pencuri dihukum juga, jikalau ia telah mencuri hendak mengenyangkan perut sebab laparnya sekalipun. |
| Italian | Non si disapprova un ladro, se ruba per soddisfare l'appetito quando ha fame; |
| Maori | E kore e whakahaweatia e te tangata te tahae, ki te tahaetia e ia he mea e makona ai tona wairua i a hiakai ia. |
| Norwegian | Blir ikke tyven foraktet, når han stjeler for å stille sin sult? |
| Portuguese | Não é desprezado o ladrão, mesmo quando furta para saciar a fome? |
| Rumanian | Hoyul nu este urgisit cknd furq ca sq-wi potoleascq foamea, cqci ki este foame; |
| Russian | оЕ У ХУЛБАФ ЧПТХ, ЕУМЙ ПО ЛТБ"ЕФ, ЮФП'Щ ОБУЩФЙФШ "ХЫХ УЧПА, ЛПЗ"Б ПО ЗПМП"ЕО; |
| Swedish | Föraktar man icke tjuven som stjäl för att mätta sitt begär, när han hungrar? |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "satisfy": satisfying, satisfyingly. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "satisfy": dissatisfy. (additional references) | |
Words containing "satisfy": dissatisfying, unsatisfying. (additional references) | |
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"Satisfy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Sainsby, satify, satifys, satisefy, satisfie. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "satisfy" (pronounced sa"tusfī') |
| 7 | s a" t u s f ī' | dissatisfy. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-f-i-s-s-t-y" | |
-2 letters: fasts, fiats, fists, satis, sayst, sifts, stays. | |
-3 letters: aits, fast, fats, fays, fiat, fist, fits, sati, says, sift, sits, stay, tass. | |
-4 letters: aft, ais, ait, ass, ays, fas, fat, fay, fit, ifs, its, sat, say, sis, sit, sty, tas, tis. | |
-5 letters: ai, as, at, ay, fa, if, is, it, si, ta, ti, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-f-i-s-s-t-y" | |
+2 letters: dayshifts. | |
+3 letters: dissatisfy, forsythias, satisfying. | |
+4 letters: faithlessly, platyfishes. | |
+5 letters: fastidiously, forestaysail, satisfactory, satisfyingly, unsatisfying. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Sounds 7. Quotations: Familiar 8. Quotations: Historic | 9. Quotations: Fiction 10. Quotations: Non-fiction 11. Quotations: Speeches 12. Usage Frequency | 13. Expressions 14. Expressions: Internet 15. Translations: Modern 16. Translations: Ancient | 17. Bible Trace 18. Derivations 19. Rhymes 20. Anagrams | 21. Bibliography |
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