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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Difficult or impossible to appease.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not to be appeased.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Incapable of being appeased or satisfied; unappeasable.

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  • adjective That cannot be appeased.

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Examples

  • The anguish it caused a man so compressed must have been terrible; the wrath it awakened inappeasable.

    Mugby Junction 2007

  • In his former journey he acquired an inappeasable relish for his dreadful food.

    Reprinted Pieces 2007

  • The anguish it caused a man so compressed must have been terrible; the wrath it awakened inappeasable.

    Mugby Junction 2007

  • He seemed to project those two shining knobs of temples of his into everything that went on and to brush his hair farther and farther back, until the very roots were almost ready to fly out of his head in inappeasable philanthropy.

    Bleak House 2007

  • All through the long sorrow of that night I, who had rejected him, confessed his sway with tears and inappeasable regrets ....

    In the Days of the Comet Herbert George 2006

  • He gazed grimly and indifferently at everything, with inappeasable grief printed on his stolid face; and said softly, as he drooped his head, “My son, my Ostap!”

    Taras Bulba 2003

  • He gazed grimly and indifferently at everything, with inappeasable grief printed on his stolid face, and said softly, as he drooped his head, ` ` My son, my Ostap! ''

    Taras Bulba and Other Tales 1952

  • He sang of fellowship, of comradeship in ancient days through stress of adventure and deadly combat; then with organ sobs that shook the heart, of death and the infinite loneliness of death, and of the inappeasable sorrow of the survivor lamenting his Jonathan.

    Border Ghost Stories Howard Pease

  • That was the cause of the inappeasable fury of the Tuvaches, who had remained miserably poor.

    Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers Various

  • But they make one hungry with an inappeasable appetite, these "Memorials of Gormandizing," bringing to mind all the beautiful dinners eaten in Latin countries, and filling the heart with longing for the hotels that look out on the Louvre at Paris, the Villa

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867 Various

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