saturant

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English

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Adjective

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saturant (comparative more saturant, superlative most saturant)

  1. Impregnating to the full; saturating.
    • 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 45:
      It is a world of seizing visual beauty, of shimmering whites and yellows that shift to glowing apricot, pink and violet with the sinking of the saturant sun.

Noun

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saturant (plural saturants)

  1. A substance which is used to saturate another.
  2. (medicine) An antacid, such as magnesia, used to reduce stomach acidity.

Translations

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Catalan

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Verb

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saturant

  1. gerund of saturar

French

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Pronunciation

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Participle

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saturant

  1. present participle of saturer

Further reading

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Latin

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Verb

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saturant

  1. third-person plural present active indicative of saturō

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French saturant.

Adjective

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saturant m or n (feminine singular saturantă, masculine plural saturanți, feminine and neuter plural saturante)

  1. saturating

Declension

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