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Definitions: Satisfying |
SatisfyingAdjective1. Giving pleasure or satisfaction. 2. Providing abundant nourishment; "a hearty meal"; "good solid food"; "ate a substantial breakfast". 3. Providing freedom from worry. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "satisfying" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Synonyms: SatisfyingSynonyms: appreciated (adj), cheering (adj), comforting (adj), gratifying (adj), hearty (adj), pleasing (adj), solid (adj), substantial (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Satisfying |
| English words defined with "satisfying": artistic ♦ construction ♦ fungible ♦ gratification ♦ in good taste ♦ live ♦ nosh-up ♦ pass, passing ♦ qualifying ♦ self-gratification, sentence, Sufficing. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "satisfying": adj. ♦ Bath ♦ Canary Birds, cooccurrence matrix ♦ decomposable searching problem ♦ Foster Grandparents ♦ Helmholtz theorem ♦ infant formula, instructor, kindergarten ♦ Jolly ♦ limiting continuous thermal withstand value, loudness level, loudness level of noise ♦ MAINTAINABILITY ENGINEER, meat preparation ♦ Permitted acreage ♦ reflexive domain ♦ sound level ♦ TEACHER, KINDERGARTEN ♦ weak-heap sort. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "satisfying": Expletion, Eyeful. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | A job that's a hell of a lot more satisfying than sewing Prada labels in your Old Navy shirts! (Will & Grace; writing credit: Evan Weinstein) Oh, hardly relaxing, but most satisfying. (Diamonds Are Forever; writing credit: Richard Maibaum) | |
Lyrics | Love satisfying ("Feel Like Making Love"; performing artist: Bad Company) | |
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Edwin P. Whipple | Cheerfulness in most cheerful people, is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline. |
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John Locke | 1690 | But supposing the charge and damages of the war are to be made up to the conqueror, to the utmost farthing; and that the children of the vanquished, spoiled of all their father's goods, are to be left to starve and perish; yet the satisfying of what shall, on this score, be due to the conqueror, will scarce give him a title to any country he shall conquer: for the damages of war can scarce amount to the value of any considerable tract of land, in any part of the world, where all the land is possessed, and none lies waste. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The revolution of 1830, by satisfying him, and soothing him, had aided in this, He remained the same, with the exception of his passionateness. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Restaurants, including fast-food outlets, should make foods satisfying these diet recommendations available to their customers. (references) | |
More attention would be redirected to those who were more responsive to their environments in an effort to make those environments more satisfying and less disruptive. (references) | ||
Partner involvement in training with these devices may be important for successful outcome, especially in regard to establishing a mutually satisfying level of sexual activity. (references) | ||
Business | In most cases, specifications satisfying U.S. requirements will also meet Spanish requirements and only electrical parts sometimes require adaptation. (references) | |
U.S. exports have played a major role in satisfying demand in China for plastic materials and resins; thus U.S. products enjoy a solid share of the plastics market. (references) | ||
Local producers are developing flue gas desulfurization (FGD) equipment that meet national standard, but still production falls well short of satisfying the growing demand in this sector. (references) | ||
Economic History | Sri Lanka | Legislation satisfying both bilateral and WTO requirements has been drafted, and passage by the Sri Lankan Parliament is expected in the summer of 2001. (references) |
Malaysia | This is a great opportunity to increase the American presence here by satisfying Malaysia's e-learning needs, which the U.S. still has an edge worldwide. (references) | |
Chile | The share of Chileans with incomes below the poverty line--defined as twice the cost of satisfying a person's minimal nutritional needs--fell from 46% of the population in 1987 to 21% in 2001. (references) | |
Trade | Jamaica | Hence, individual companies satisfying certain criteria are able to apply either to the Kingston Free Zone or the Montego Bay Free Zone for single-entity free zone status. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Calvin Coolidge | 1923-1929 | Peace will come when there is realization that only under a reign of law, based on righteousness and supported by the religious conviction of the brotherhood of man, can there be any hope of a complete and satisfying life. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | Only by helping the least fortunate of its members to help themselves can the human family achieve the decent, satisfying life that is the right of all people. |
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| "Satisfying" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 80.62% of the time. "Satisfying" is used about 871 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 80.62% | 702 | 9,520 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 19.38% | 169 | 23,972 |
| Total | 100.00% | 871 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "satisfying": appetite-satisfying, Self-satisfying, soul-satisfying, thirst-satisfying. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
satisfying a woman | 10 |
man satisfying | 5 |
satisfying | 4 |
satisfying sexually woman | 3 |
job most satisfying | 3 |
satisfying sex | 3 |
career most satisfying | 2 |
satisfying wife | 2 |
partner satisfying | 2 |
satisfying customer | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "satisfying"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i kënaqshën. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مرض (ail, ailment, be ill, become ill, complaint, disease, fall ill, fall sick, favorable, favourable, get ill, illness, infirmity, mal, malady, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, pox, satisfactory, sicken, sickness, take ill, trouble), مباشر (collateral, conducting, direct, downright, eve, first hand, forthright, frontal, fulfilling, immediate, lineal, non-stop, plump, point blank, proximate, through). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | сит (full, replete with food), обилен (abundant, affluent, ample, exuberant, full, generous, hearty, liberal, lusty, plentiful, rich, ungrudging), задоволяващ, приятен (acceptable, agreeable, cheerful, clever, companionable, cozy, darling, easy, engaging, enjoyable, good, gracious, grateful, groovy, jocund, jolly, likable, likeable, likely, luscious, merry, musical, nice, nice-looking, not unwelcome, palatable, pleasant, pleasing, pretty, refreshing, rose colored, rose coloured, sapid, savoury, soft, sweet, sympathetic, toothsome, welcome), питателен (alimentary, nourishing, nutrient, nutritive, substantial). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 满意 (satisfaction, satisfied, satisfy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vydatný (hearty, meaty, plentiful, substantial), uspokojivý (fair, satisfactory). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | mætningsevne (capacity of satisfying). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | waar ankers van het dynamische type niet bevredigend functioneren,bieden ankers van het explosief inbeddende type,na verdere ontwikkeling,gunstige vooruitzichten (explosive imbedding type anchors show promise of satisfying a need when fully developed, in areas where dynamic type anchors do not perform properly), verzadigingsvermogen (capacity of satisfying). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | täyttävyys (capacity of satisfying). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | satisfaisant (satisfactory, satisfiable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | sättigend (filling, satiable, satiably, satiating, sating, saturating), befriedigung (appeasement, assuagement, gratification, meeting, pacification, satiation, satisfaction), befriedigend (acceptable, adequate, contenting, fair, gratifying, pleasable, satisfactory). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | στις ζώνες,όπου οι άγκυρες δυναμικού τύπου δεν ανταποκρίνονται σωστά στο ρόλο τους,άγκυρες,που εισχωρούν με εκρηκτικό,φαίνεται να μπορούν (explosive imbedding type anchors show promise of satisfying a need when fully developed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | "שבע" (satiating). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kielégítő (adequate, hunky-dory, it's not bad, it's not so bad, jake, rewarding, satisfactory). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sostanzioso (extensive, rich, Square, substantial), soddisfacente (acceptable, decent, satisfactory, satisfiable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 만족시킴 (Pleasing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | saiagh (sated, satisfactory, satisfied, sufficent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | atisfyingsay poder de saciedade (capacity of satisfying). (various references) satisfãcãtor (satisfactorily, satisfactory, well). (various references) сытный (good, nourishing, substantial). (various references) sit (full, full-fed, satiated), zadovoljavajući (okay), ubedljiv (cogent, conceivable, conclusive, convincing, decisive, persuasive, weighty), dovoljan (adequate, enough, sufficient). (various references) sustancioso (juicy, meaty, solid), satisfactorio (o.k., ok, okay, okey, okeydokey, satisfactory, satisfiable), convincente (cogent, convincing, persuasive, powerful), agradable (agreeable, capacious, comfortable, congenial, enjoyable, genial, goodly, likable, lovely, nice, palatable, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, prepossessing, welcome). (various references) tillfredsställande (gratification, gratifying, indulgence, satiation, satisfaction, satisfactory, well-rounded). (various references) yeterli (adequate, ample, competent, decent, effectual, efficacious, efficient, enough, equal, fit, qualified, satisfactory, snug, sufficient, suited, that will do, working), tatmin edici (convincing, satisfactory), doyurucu (filling), cevap veren (answering, respondent, responsive). (various references) що да" задоволення. (various references) l m vừa ý (pleasing, pleasurable), l m thoả mãn (satisfactory). (various references) digonol (abundant, adequate, satisfied, sufficient). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | placeat, placebat, placebit, placebunt, placendum, placens, placent, placentem, placentes, placentia, placeret, placet, placetur, placita, placitam, placito, placitos, placitum, placorem. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 13, Verse 25 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | DikaioV esqwn empipla thn yuchn autou yucai de asebwn endeeiV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Iustus comedit et replet animam suam venter autem impiorum insaturabilis |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | The riytwis eteth, and fulfillith his soule; the wombe forsothe of vnpitous vnfilable. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | The righteous eateth to the satisfying of his soul: but the belly of the wicked shall want. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | The righteous eateth to the satisfying of his soul: but the belly of the wicked shall want. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | The upright man has food to the full measure of his desire, but there will be no food for the stomach of evil-doers. |
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| Language | Proverbs Chapter 13, Verse 25 |
| Bulgarian | Праведният яде до насищане на душата си, А коремът на нечестивите не ще се задоволи. |
| Cebuano | ¶ Ang matarung magakaon aron sa pagpabusog sa iyang kalag; Apan ang tiyan sa mga dautan pagagutomon. |
| Chinese | 義 人 喫 得 飽 足 ． 惡 人 肚 腹 缺 糧 。 |
| Croatian | Pravednik ima jela do sitosti, a trbuh opakih poznaje oskudicu. |
| Danish | Den retfærdige spiser, til Sulten er stillet, gudløses Bug er tom. |
| Dutch | De rechtvaardige eet tot verzadiging zijner ziel toe; maar de buik der goddelozen zal gebrek hebben. |
| Finnish | Vanhurskas saa syödä kylläksensä, mutta jumalattomain vatsa jää vajaaksi. |
| French | Le juste mange et satisfait son appétit, Mais le ventre des méchants éprouve la disette. |
| German | Der Gerechte ißt, daß sein Seele satt wird; der Gottlosen Bauch aber hat nimmer genug. |
| Haitian Creole | ¶ Moun k'ap mache dwat toujou gen ase pou yo manje. Men, vant mechan yo pa janm plen. |
| Hungarian | Az igaz eszik az õ kivánságának megelégedéséig; az istentelenek hasa pedig szûkölködik. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Orang yang baik selalu berkecukupan, tetapi orang jahat selalu kekurangan. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Bahwa orang yang benar itu makan sampai kenyang-kenyang, tetapi orang jahat akan kekurangan kelak sehingga hampa perutnya. |
| Italian | Il giusto mangia a saziet , ma il ventre degli empi soffre la fame. |
| Maori | ¶ Kai ana te tangata tika, makona ana tona wairua; ka hapa ia te kopu o te tangata kino. |
| Norwegian | Den rettferdige eter så han blir mett, men de ugudeliges buk blir tom. |
| Portuguese | O justo come e fica satisfeito; mas o apetite dos ímpios nunca se satisfaz. |
| Rumanian | Cel neprihqnit mqnkncq pknq se saturq, dar pkntecele celor rqi duce lipsq. - |
| Russian | рТБЧЕ"ОЙЛ ЕУФ "П УЩФПУФЙ, Б ЮТЕЧП 'ЕЪЪБЛПООЩИ ФЕТ ЙФ МЙЫЕОЙЕ. |
| Spanish | El justo come hasta saciar su alma, pero el estómago de los impíos sufrirá necesidad. |
| Swedish | Den rättfärdige får äta, så att hans hunger bliver mättad, men de ogudaktigas buk måste lida brist. >Ords. 10,3. |
| Thai | คนชอบธรรมรับประทานไ"้จนพอใจ แต่ท้องของคนชั่วร้ายจะหิว |
| Ukrainian | ¶ Праведний їсть, скільки схоче душа, живіт же безбожників завсіди брак відчува". |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "satisfying": satisfyingly. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "satisfying": dissatisfying, unsatisfying. (additional references) | |
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"Satisfying" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: satifying, satisffying, satisfing. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "satisfying" (pronounced sa"tusfī'ing) |
| 9 | s a" t u s f ī' i ng | unsatisfying. |
| 4 | -f ī' i ng | amplifying, certifying, clarifying, classifying, codifying, disqualifying, diversifying, edifying, electrifying, exemplifying, falsifying, fortifying, gentrifying, glorifying, gratifying, horrifying, identifying, intensifying, justifying, magnifying, modifying, mummifying, mystifying, notifying, nullifying, oversimplifying, purifying, qualifying, quantifying, ratifying, reclassifying, rectifying, signifying, simplifying, solidifying, specifying, stultifying, terrifying, testifying, unifying, verifying. |
| 3 | -ī' i ng | multiplying, occupying, outlying. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-f-g-i-i-n-s-s-t-y" | |
-2 letters: fastings, siftings. | |
-3 letters: fasting, fisting, isatins, satisfy, sayings, sifting, signify, staying, stygian. | |
-4 letters: agists, angsts, assign, fagins, faints, fating, faying, gainst, gasify, giants, ignify, insist, isatin, saints, sanity, sating, satins, satiny, saying, siting, staigs, stains, stangs, stings, stingy, stying, syngas. | |
-5 letters: agist, angst, antis, antsy, ayins, fagin, faint, fangs, fasts, fiats, finis, fists, gains, gaits, gassy, gasts, giant, gifts, gists, gnats, intis, naifs, nasty, nifty, sains, saint, sasin, satin, satis, sayst, sifts, signs, sings, snags, snits, stags, stagy, staig, stain, stang, stays, sting, tains, tangs, tangy, tansy, tings, tying, yagis, yangs. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-f-g-i-i-n-s-s-t-y" | |
+2 letters: satisfyingly, unsatisfying. | |
+3 letters: dissatisfying. | |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100001 01110100 01101001 01110011 01100110 01111001 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S a t i s f y i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0061 0074 0069 0073 0066 0079 0069 006E 0067 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53678675857291758073 |
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