Insatiable
[ɪn'seɪʃəb(ə)l] or [ɪn'seʃəbl]
Definition
(a.) Not satiable; incapable of being satisfied or appeased; very greedy; as, an insatiable appetite, thirst, or desire.
Inputed by Diego
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Insatiate, unappeasable, voracious, not to be satisfied, very greedy.
Typed by Emile
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Voracious, unappeasable, omnivorous, ravenous, rapacious_greedy
ANT:Moderate, delicate, fastidious, dainty, squeamish
Checker: Sigmund
Definition
adj. that cannot be satiated or satisfied.—ns. Insā′tiableness Insatiabil′ity Insatī′ety.—adv. Insā′tiably.
Typist: Ted
Examples
- I stayed but two months with my wife and family, for my insatiable desire of seeing foreign countries, would suffer me to continue no longer. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- All the miseries and discontents of life he traces to insatiable selfishness. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Now here comes the point:--The philosopher too is a lover of knowledge in every form; he has an insatiable curiosity. Plato. The Republic.
- And the insatiable desire of wealth and the neglect of all other things for the sake of money-getting was also the ruin of oligarchy? Plato. The Republic.
- And the tyrannical soul must be always poor and insatiable? Plato. The Republic.
- Reason, and not feeling, is my guide; my ambition is unlimited: my desire to rise higher, to do more than others, insatiable. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The completion of my demoniacal design became an insatiable passion. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- And democracy has her own good, of which the insatiable desire brings her to dissolution? Plato. The Republic.
- Ordinarily he was like other normal lads of his age--full of boyish, hearty enjoyments--but withal possessed of an unquenchable spirit of inquiry and an insatiable desire for knowledge. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- If she knew herself to be surrounded by insatiable vengeance and unquenchable fires, were they mine? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
Typist: Ted