satisfy
Make someone content
Satisfy means to meet a need, desire, or expectation adequately.
If you satisfy your hunger, you eat enough to no longer feel hungry.
If you satisfy a requirement, you fulfill what is demanded.
The explanation satisfied her curiosity.
The word carries a sense of sufficiency rather than excess—to be satisfied is to have enough, not necessarily to have everything one might want.
Someone who is hard to satisfy has standards that are difficult to meet.
In legal contexts, to satisfy a debt or judgment is to pay it in full.
Polite appeal word
- delightIntense pleasure or satisfaction
- gratifyGive satisfaction to
- charmAttractive personal quality
- thrillSurge of intense excitement
excite · captivate · enchant · entertain · amuse · pamper · indulge · cater
Execute to completion
- accomplishComplete successfully
- completeLacking nothing, fully done
- achieveSucceed through effort
- attainReach through effort
realize · meet · deliver · execute · consummate · discharge · perform · finalize
Satisfy to restore calm
- placateLessen someone's anger
- pacifyTo calm agitation
- mollifyReduce anger or distress
- conciliateCalm hostile feelings
assuage · calm · soothe · reassure · settle · accommodate · humor · comply
hunger
Need for nourishment
longing · yearning · urge · need · craving · indulge · quench · fill · feed · nourish
please
Polite appeal word
thrill · excite · captivate · enchant · entertain · amuse · pamper · indulge · cater · tickle
fulfill
Execute to completion
- accomplishComplete successfully
- completeLacking nothing, fully done
- achieveSucceed through effort
attain · realize · meet · deliver · execute · consummate · discharge · perform · finalize · implement
appease
Satisfy to restore calm
conciliate · assuage · calm · soothe · reassure · settle · accommodate · humor · comply · acquiesce
content
What something contains
- pleasedFeeling satisfaction or joy
- gratifiedMade content or pleased
- happyFeeling pleasure or contentment
fulfilled · satiated · comfortable · at ease · peaceful · serene · tranquil · blissful · sufficient · enough
convince
Cause to believe
demonstrate · confirm · verify · validate · answer · resolve · address · settle · reassure · substantiate
- accomplishaccomplish, achieve, complete, do, finish
- cut itmake it, hack it, pass muster, cut the mustard, make the grade
- hungerhunger, hungry, starving, starvation, famished
- calmingcalm, calm down, soothe, relax, pacify
- indulgenceindulgence, indulge, indulgent, self-indulgent, overindulgence
- fixesfix, repair, mend, correction, correct
satisfydisappoint
Fail to meet expectations
dissatisfy · frustrate · fail · let down · neglect
satisfydisplease
Cause annoyance or dissatisfaction
dissatisfy · annoy · upset · irritate · discontent
- patient satisfactionHealthcare recipient's approval rating
- satisfaction guaranteedPledge of buyer contentment
- job satisfactionContentment with one's employment
- satisfaction guaranteePledge of customer contentment
- not satisfied
- sexual satisfactionPleasure from intimate acts
satisfied, satisfying, satisfaction, satisfactory, dissatisfied, unsatisfied, dissatisfaction, unsatisfactory, unsatisfying