SATISFIED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does satisfied mean? 

• SATISFIED (adjective)
  The adjective SATISFIED has 2 senses:

1. filled with satisfaction

2. allayed

  Familiarity information: SATISFIED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SATISFIED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Filled with satisfaction

Context example:

a satisfied customer

Similar:

content; contented (satisfied or showing satisfaction with things as they are)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Allayed

Synonyms:

quenched; satisfied; slaked

Context example:

his thirst quenched he was able to continue

Similar:

mitigated (made less severe or intense)

 Context examples 

When the Professor was satisfied he called Arthur into the room, and bade him strip off his coat.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Her conscience stopt her in the middle, but Edmund was satisfied.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I am satisfied that Mr. and Mrs. Micawber could not have enjoyed the feast more, if they had sold a bed to provide it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Holmes shook his head like a man who is far from being satisfied.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But on seeing them together, she became perfectly satisfied.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I can see that you are not satisfied.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She therefore satisfied herself with common-place remarks or quiet attention, and the Admiral had it all his own way.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

"Oh, Mother, if I'm ever half as good as you, I shall be satisfied," cried Jo, much touched.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

My little servant, after helping me to clean my house, was gone, well satisfied with the fee of a penny for her aid.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

'Tis nothing. But be satisfied, for you are not to know anything at all of the matter.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)