Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Incapable of being satisfied: as, unsatisfiable passions.
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- adjective Not
satisfiable . Unable to besatisfied .
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- adjective not capable of being satisfied
Etymologies
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Examples
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After the death of Brian Johnston he seemed to abandon levity and good humour, on air at least, alternating between choleric disdain for the players he thought not good enough and an unsatisfiable appetite for contrasting the modern game in a stridently unfavourable light with the one in which he had made his name.
Fred Trueman: the good, the bad and the grouchy | Rob Bagchi 2011
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His sex drive felt radioactive, very unnatural and unsatisfiable.
The American Prophecy Cupcake Kid 2011
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There is something about the sexual drive, Freud suggested, that makes it intrinsically unsatisfiable.
Over the moon: Adam Phillips on the happiness myth Adam Phillips 2010
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His experience of unsatisfied desires must make him wish that he could satisfy them and feel poor and unsatisfiable because he cannot.
Plato's Ethics and Politics in The Republic Brown, Eric 2009
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To be explicit: the condition ˜DzU™ is unsatisfiable, so U cannot have a complement.
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"Need" is of course what it is all about, but unlike pornography proper, whose job it is to create a world in which all desires can be satisfied, Café Flesh does the opposite: in its strange post-apocalyptic, self-consciously theatrical world, desire is an addiction, an illness, a disease, a painful, insatiable but unsatisfiable need without corporeal manifestation or release.
How to Do the History of Pornography: Romantic Sexuality and its Field of Vision 2006
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Also it ultimately is unsatisfiable as the Luddites will always say the latest restrictions aren't enough to make the world perfect.
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He was no longer using women to satisfy an unsatisfiable need.
When He's Married to Mom Kenneth M. Adams 2007
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He was no longer using women to satisfy an unsatisfiable need.
When He's Married to Mom Kenneth M. Adams 2007
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