satisfy 
sat·isfy (sat′is fī′)
transitive verb -·fied′, -·fy′·ing
- to fulfill the needs, expectations, wishes, or desires of (someone); content; gratify
- to fulfill or answer the requirements or conditions of (something)
- to comply with (rules, standards, or obligations)
- to free from doubt or anxiety; convince
- to answer (a doubt, objection, etc.) adequately or convincingly; solve
- to give what is due to
- to discharge (an obligation, debt, etc.); settle in full
- to make reparation to or for
Etymology: ME satisfyen < OFr satisfier < L satisfacere < satis, enough (see sad) + facere, to make (see do)
intransitive verb
to be satisfying, adequate, sufficient, etc.
satisfy
v.
To make content
content, comfort, cheer, elate, befriend, please, rejoice, delight, exhilarate, amuse, entertain, flatter, make merry, make cheerful, gladden, content, gratify, indulge, humor, conciliate, propitiate, capture, enthrall, enliven, animate, captivate, fascinate, fill, sate, be of advantage, surfeit, gorge, glut, cloy, satiate, tickle*, brighten up*. To pay
To fulfill
do, fill, serve the purpose, be enough, assuage, observe, perform, comply with, conform to, meet requirements, keep a promise, accomplish, complete, be adequate, be sufficient, provide, furnish, qualify, answer, serve, equip, meet, avail, suffice, fill the want, come up to, content one, appease one, fill the bill*, pass muster*, get by*, go in a pinch*. Antonyms
neglect*, leave open, fail to do. To convince
Object
- requirement: Between them, the two engine sizes satisfy all possible requirements.
- criterion: In order to satisfy those criteria, a vessel must be assessed by means of an incline test.
- demand: Let's have a balance of shops which satisfies all demands.
- curiosity: I've always argued that archeology needs to be more than elites satisfying the intellectual curiosity of other elites.
- craving: The activity will curb your impulse to eat and the venting of your feelings will satisfy the craving for the food.
- constraint: This method reshapes the components in the specified target container in order to satisfy the constraints of the GridLayout object.
Preposition: with
- outcome: He came out poorer than he went in, but satisfied with the outcome.
- response: Yes No 3. If you did report the crime, were you satisfied with the police response?
- reply: Rule P.17 ( Lost ) Would have allowed supplementary questions on Annual Report without notice if branch not satisfied with earlier reply.
- result: The pieces are often fired several times before I am satisfied with the results.
- progress: He said he is satisfied with the progress of the anti-terrorism campaign underway in Afghanistan.
- answer: If you are not satisfied with quick easy answers to these questions, this book will help.
Used with why or when
- when: They felt satisfied when their ideas were accepted by their classmates.
Modifying Another Word
- completely: Help us to help you We want you to be completely satisfied with our services.
- entirely: Rice farmers are entirely satisfied with the freshwater they now enjoy year round.
- totally: We want you to be totally satisfied with every purchase you make from Argos.
Preposition: that
- applicant: PMETB will not approve a recommendation for entry to the Specialist Register unless it is satisfied that the applicant meets minimum requirements.
- matter: I have not put into this report every detail investigated but I am satisfied that no matter of significance has been overlooked.
- majority: Accordingly, the Panel is satisfied that a majority of the workers in the bargaining unit are likely to be members of the Union.
- arrangement: More generally, we are satisfied that arrangements can be made to give effect to this change.
Yo soy un artista. El placer de la carne le resta fuerzas a mi vocacio¤ n picto¤ rica, prefiero sentir que los jugos de mi sexo fluyen hacia un cuadro, lo irrigan, lo fertilizan, lo realzan; ca¤ strame el goce de la carne, satisfa¤ ceme el goce del arte. Iamanartist.The pleasure ofthefleshrobsstrengthfrom myartistic vocation, I prefer to feel my sexual juices flow toward a painting, wash over it, fertilize it, realize it; the delights of the flesh castrate me, the delights of art satisfy me.
After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, love, and so onöand found that none ofthesefinally satisfy, or permanently wearöwhat remains? Nature remains.
Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred[nor] allow our creative protests to degenerate into physical violence.
Le bon sens est la chose du monde la mieux partage¤ e: car chacun pense en e" tre si bien pourvu, que ceux me" me qui sont les plus difficiles a' contenter en toute autre chose n'ont point coutume d'en de¤ sirer plus qu'ils ont. En quoi il n'est pas vraisemblable que tous se trompent; mais pluto" t cela te¤ moigne que la puissance de bien juger et distinguer le vrai d'avec le faux, qui est proprement ce qu'on nomme le bon sens ou la raison, est naturellement e¤ gale en tous les hommes. Good sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world; for everyone thinks himself so well supplied with it, that even those who are hardest to satisfy in every other way do not usually desire more of it than they already have. In this matter it is not likely that everybody is mistaken; it rather goes to show that the power of judging well and distinguishing truth from falsehood, which is what we properly mean by good sense or reason, is naturally equal in all men.
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