Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Insatiable.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not to be satisfied or sated; insatiable: as, insatiate greed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Insatiable.
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- adjective
Insatiable
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective impossible to satisfy
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
Examples
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I shuddered to think who might be the next victim sacrificed to his insatiate revenge.
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I shuddered to think who might be the next victim sacrificed to his insatiate revenge.
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She ignored the protests of her stomach, which had been left insatiate for days.
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She ignored the protests of her stomach, which had been left insatiate for days.
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She ignored the protests of her stomach, which had been left insatiate for days.
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Thou saw'st the murdered mate when tossed by pirates from the midnight deck; for hours he fell into the deeper midnight of the insatiate maw; and his murderers still sailed on unharmed - while swift lightnings shivered the neighboring ship that would have borne a righteous husband to outstretched, longing arms.
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Surely not much to do with 9/11 outrage and insatiate revenge?
Cruel Americans Always Enjoy Hearing Enemy Body Counts �� So do Suicide Bomber Recruits
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O hapless women, and insatiate in jealousy to their own ruin!
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And as when earth-burrowing ants gather in swarms round a narrow cleft, or when flies lighting upon a tiny drop of sweet honey cluster round with insatiate eagerness; so at that time, huddled together, the Minyae thronged about the spring from the rock.
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Sorrow's charm doth drive me wild, insatiate, painful, endless, even as the trickling stream that gushes from some steep rock's face; for 'tis woman's way to fall a-weeping o'er the cruel calamity of children dead.
ofravens commented on the word insatiate
Insatiate, he ransacks the land
from "Pursuit," by Sylvia Plath
April 8, 2008
hernesheir commented on the word insatiate
"The insatiate itch of scribbling."
William Gifford (1756-1826) - Trans. of Juvenal
September 20, 2009