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unsaturated

unsaturated adjective: not saturated; capable of dissolving more of a solute at the same temperature.

Adjective

unsaturated (not comparable)

  1. Not saturated; capable of dissolving more of a solute at the same temperature.
  2. Of a compound containing atoms sharing more than one valence bond, especially of an organic compound having one or more double bonds or triple bonds between carbon atoms.
  3. Not chromatically pure; diluted.

Noun

unsaturated (plural unsaturateds)

  1. An unsaturated hydrocarbon.
    • […] the unsaturateds (mainly butadiene and cyclopentadiene) in these gases.1953, The Chemical Trade Journal and Chemical Engineer, page 788

unsaturated meaning in Tamil

unsaturated in Tamil

நிரம்பாத, தெவிட்டாத, நிறைசெறிவில்லா, அடைபடாத, தெவிட்டா, நிறைவுறா

Forms of unsaturated

pluralunsaturateds

Origin of unsaturated

From un- + saturated.

Words formed from unsaturated

Phrases with unsaturated

Questions about unsaturated

What does unsaturated mean?
Unsaturated means not saturated; capable of dissolving more of a solute at the same temperature.
What is unsaturated in Tamil?
Unsaturated in Tamil is நிரம்பாத, தெவிட்டாத, நிறைசெறிவில்லா. See Unsaturated meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is unsaturated?
Unsaturated can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near unsaturated in the dictionary

  1. unsatisfying
  2. unsatisfyingly
  3. unsatisfyingness
  4. unsaturable
  5. unsaturate
  6. unsaturated
  7. unsaturated fat
  8. unsaturated fats
  9. unsaturated fatty acid
  10. unsaturated fatty acids
  11. unsaturatedly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unsaturated (page history and authors); unsaturated (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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