Insatiate
[in'seiʃiit]
Definition
(adj.) impossible to satisfy; 'an insatiate appetite'; 'an insatiable demand for old buildings to restore'; 'his passion for work was unsatiable' .
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Definition
(a.) Insatiable; as, insatiate thirst.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Insatiable.
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Definition
adj. that cannot be satiated or satisfied.—ns. Insā′tiableness Insatiabil′ity Insatī′ety.—adv. Insā′tiably.
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Examples
- I shuddered to think who might be the next victim sacrificed to his insatiate revenge. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- To this trio everybody in the court possessed of sixpence has an insatiate desire to exhibit hospitality in a liquid form. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- All the devouring and insatiate Monsters imagined since imagination could record itself, are fused in the one realisation, Guillotine. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
Editor: Pratt