Meaning & use
Oversaturated
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Filled or supplied to an excessive degree, beyond what is useful, needed, or able to be absorbed.
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The market for fitness apps has become oversaturated with near-identical products.
The photo looked garish because the colors were oversaturated.
A note on using this word
Originally a chemistry term for a solution holding more dissolved solute than normal, now widely used for markets, media, and images.
Words with a similar meaning
overloadedglutted
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Words with an opposite meaning
undersaturatedscarce
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