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 beingsatisfied orappeased ; 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
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Examples
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And, as we had heard before from Secretary of State Clinton, the insatiable -- what she called insatiable drug appetite from Americans.
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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
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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
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It is not the rich, but rather the government who "whose appetite better warrants the word insatiable," he argues.
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It is not the rich, but rather the government who "whose appetite better warrants the word insatiable," he argues.
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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
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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
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Unfortunately, quite a few children with attention control problems are accurately described as insatiable.
A Mind at a Time M.D. Mel Levine 2002
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Unfortunately, quite a few children with attention control problems are accurately described as insatiable.
A Mind at a Time M.D. Mel Levine 2002
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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
moriza commented on the word insatiable
I have an insatiable desire of you...
July 18, 2008
yarb commented on the word insatiable
Me?
July 18, 2008
bilby commented on the word insatiable
It's the toes, yarb *flutter*
July 19, 2008
agustinolvera commented on the word insatiable
"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