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INSATIABLE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Impossible to satisfy
Example:
his passion for work was unsatiable
Synonyms:
insatiable; insatiate; unsatiable
Classified under:
Similar:
quenchless; unquenchable (impossible to quench)
unsated; unsatiated; unsatisfied (not having been satisfied)
unsatisfiable (not capable of being satisfied)
Context examples:
It would be tedious to trouble the reader with relating what vast numbers of illustrious persons were called up to gratify that insatiable desire I had to see the world in every period of antiquity placed before me.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
