Meaning of INSATIABLE
Pronunciation: | | in'seyshubul
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WordNet Dictionary |
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| Definition: | | [adj] impossible to satiate or satisfy; "an insatiable appetite"; "an insatiable hunger for knowledge" |
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| Synonyms: | | insatiate, quenchless, unquenchable, unsated, unsatiable, unsatiated, unsatisfiable, unsatisfied |
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| Antonyms: | | satiate, satiated | |
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| Definition: | | Insatiable Nigel Weatherby-Smythe, faithful butler to society portrait painter Jacqueline de Fidelio, follows his mistress as she journeys from Texas to Aspen to Nepal on a quest to discover who is killing the female members of the fabulously wealthy Hammond family, and why. more details ... |
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Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| Definition: | | \In*sa"tia*ble\, a. [F. insatiable, L. ionsatiabilis.
See {In-} not, and {Satiable}.]
Not satiable; incapable of being satisfied or appeased; very
greedy; as, an insatiable appetite, thirst, or desire.
``Insatiable of glory.'' --Milton.
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| Related Terms: | | a hog for, acquisitive, all-devouring, Apician, avaricious, avid, bolting, bottomless, clamorous, coveting, covetous, cramming, crapulent, crapulous, crying, demanding, devouring, edacious, esurient, exigent, glutting, gluttonizing, gluttonous, gobbling, gorging, grabby, grasping, greedy, gulping, guttling, guzzling, hoggish, hyperphagic, importunate, insatiate, insistent, intemperate, limitless, mercenary, miserly, money-hungry, money-mad, omnivorous, overgreedy, piggish, polyphagic, pressing, quenchless, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, slakeless, sordid, stuffing, swinish, unappeasable, unappeased, unquenchable, unsated, unsatisfiable, unsatisfied, unslakeable, unslaked, urgent, venal, voracious, wolfing, yearning |
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