Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Impossible to satiate or satisfy.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not satiable; incapable of being satisfied or appeased; inordinately greedy: as, insatiable desire; insatiable thirst.
  • Synonyms Unappeasable, unquenchable, voracious.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Not satiable; incapable of being satisfied or appeased; very greedy.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Not satiable; incapable of being satisfied or appeased; very greedy; as, an insatiable appetite, thirst, or desire.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective impossible to satisfy

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English insaciable, from Old French, from Latin īnsatiābilis : in-, not; see in– + satiāre, to fill; see satiate.]

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Examples

  • And, as we had heard before from Secretary of State Clinton, the insatiable -- what she called insatiable drug appetite from Americans.

    CNN Transcript Apr 16, 2009 2009

  • Oosterman said the goal is to be ahead of consumer and business demand for wireless data, which he called insatiable.

    Thestar.com - Home Page Michael Lewis 2011

  • If that is true, when taxpayers who want to keep their hard-earned money are compared to politicians who want to take it from them to feed their uncontrolled spending, whose appetite better warrants the word insatiable?

    ' William McGurn 2010

  • It is not the rich, but rather the government who "whose appetite better warrants the word insatiable," he argues.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2010

  • It is not the rich, but rather the government who "whose appetite better warrants the word insatiable," he argues.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2010

  • One of the answers is what Mr. Mallevays describes as the "insatiable" desire for luxury goods among Chinese high-net-worth individuals.

    Saved by the BRICs Julian Evans 2011

  • There was still time to make his last call on this nasty case, a kind of valediction his so-called insatiable curiosity made imperative.

    TOO MANY MURDERS Colleen McCullough 2009

  • Unfortunately, quite a few children with attention control problems are accurately described as insatiable.

    A Mind at a Time M.D. Mel Levine 2002

  • Unfortunately, quite a few children with attention control problems are accurately described as insatiable.

    A Mind at a Time M.D. Mel Levine 2002

  • That they should be insatiable, which is the greatest misery of all in a poor condition.

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721

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  • I have an insatiable desire of you...

    July 18, 2008

  • Me?

    July 18, 2008

  • It's the toes, yarb *flutter*

    July 19, 2008

  • "Do you realize that your insatiable pull for all things deadly was strong enough to recover a pack of mutant canines from extinction?" Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer page31

    October 4, 2010