imbued
Thoroughly soaked through
Imbued is the past tense and participle of imbue, meaning to fill or saturate something thoroughly with a quality, feeling, or idea.
The word almost always appears with "with": The ceremony was imbued with tradition; Her teaching imbued students with curiosity.
Unlike simple verbs like "fill," imbue suggests deep permeation—the quality becomes inseparable from the thing it saturates.
Something imbued with meaning carries that meaning as part of its essential character.
Saturated with flavor
- steepedSaturated by soaking
- permeatedSpread thoroughly through
- saturatedThoroughly soaked through
- suffusedSpread throughout completely
instilled · invested · endowed · filled · charged · laden · drenched · soaked
Belonging by nature
- innateExisting since birth
- ingrainedFirmly established by habit
- embeddedSet firmly within something
- deep-rootedFirmly and long established
integral · fundamental · constitutive · built-in · inborn · hardwired · entrenched · deep-seated
infused
Saturated with flavor
suffused · instilled · invested · endowed · filled · charged · laden · drenched · soaked · impregnated
intrinsic
Belonging by nature
deep-rooted · integral · fundamental · constitutive · built-in · inborn · hardwired · entrenched · deep-seated · rooted
animated
Full of life, or drawn moving
awakened · sparked · ignited · moved · touched · galvanized · roused · uplifted · enlightened · invigorated
- fullnessfull, empty, half-full, filled, half-empty
- saturatedsoaked, drenched, waterlogged, soggy, sopping
imbueduninspired
Lacking creative spark
unaffected · untouched · unmoved · blank · neutral