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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SAT'ISFIED, pp. Having the desires fully gratified; made content.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: filled with satisfaction; "a satisfied customer"
2: allayed; "his thirst quenched he was able to continue" [syn: quenched, satisfied, slaked]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Satisfy Sat"is*fy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Satisfied; p. pr. & vb. n. Satisfying.] [OF. satisfier; L. satis enough + -ficare (in comp.) to make; cf. F. satisfaire, L. satisfacere. See Sad, a., and Fact.] 1. In general, to fill up the measure of a want of (a person or a thing); hence, to grafity fully the desire of; to make content; to supply to the full, or so far as to give contentment with what is wished for. Death shall . . . with us two Be forced to satisfy his ravenous maw. --Milton. 2. To pay to the extent of claims or deserts; to give what is due to; as, to satisfy a creditor. 3. To answer or discharge, as a claim, debt, legal demand, or the like; to give compensation for; to pay off; to requite; as, to satisfy a claim or an execution. 4. To free from doubt, suspense, or uncertainty; to give assurance to; to set at rest the mind of; to convince; as, to satisfy one's self by inquiry. The standing evidences of the truth of the gospel are in themselves most firm, solid, and satisfying. --Atterbury. Syn: To satiate; sate; content; grafity; compensate. See Satiate.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. If you are satisfied with something, you are happy because you have got what you wanted or needed. We are not satisfied with these results. ...satisfied customers. ADJ: usu v-link ADJ, oft ADJ with n 2. If you are satisfied that something is true or has been done properly, you are convinced about this after checking it. People must be satisfied that the treatment is safe. ADJ: v-link ADJ, oft ADJ that

Moby Thesaurus

accepting, allayed, assured, at ease, believing, certain, charmed, cloyed, comfortable, composed, confident, content, contented, convinced, cozy, crammed, delighted, devout, disgusted, dogmatic, doubtless, easy, easygoing, engorged, eupeptic, euphoric, exhilarated, faithful, favorably impressed with, fed-up, fideistic, full, full of, glad, gladsome, glutted, gorged, gratified, happy, impressed with, in clover, intrigued, jaded, of good comfort, overfed, overfull, overgorged, oversaturated, overstuffed, persuaded, pietistic, pious, pistic, pleased, pleased as Punch, pleased with, positive, reconciled, replete, resigned, sans souci, sated, satiated, saturated, secure, sick of, slaked, sold on, stuffed, supersaturated, sure, surfeited, taken with, thrilled, tickled, tickled pink, tickled to death, tired of, uncomplaining, under the impression, undoubtful, undoubting, unrepining, with a bellyful, with a snootful, with enough of, without care