Adjacent Words

Insatiable definitions

	Tweet

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

INSA'TIABLE, a. insa'shable. [L. insatiabilis; in and satio, to satisfy.] Incapable of being satisfied or appeased; very greedy; as an insatiable appetite or desire; insatiable thirst.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: impossible to satisfy; "an insatiate appetite"; "an insatiable demand for old buildings to restore"; "his passion for work was unsatiable" [syn: insatiate, insatiable, unsatiable] [ant: satiate, satiated]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Middle English insaciable, from Anglo-French, from Latin insatiabilis, from in- + satiare to satisfy — more at satiate Date: 15th century incapable of being satisfied ; quenchless <had an insatiable desire for wealth> • insatiability noun • insatiableness noun • insatiably adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 unable to be satisfied. 2 (usu. foll. by of) extremely greedy. Derivatives: insatiability n. insatiably adv. Etymology: ME f. OF insaciable or L insatiabilis (as IN-(1), SATIATE)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Insatiable In*sa"tia*ble, a. [F. insatiable, L. ionsatiabilis. See In- not, and Satiable.] Not satiable; incapable of being satisfied or appeased; very greedy; as, an insatiable appetite, thirst, or desire. ``Insatiable of glory.'' --Milton.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If someone has an insatiable desire for something, they want as much of it as they can possibly get. The public has an insatiable appetite for stories about the famous... = voracious ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Insatiate, unappeasable, not to be satisfied, that cannot be sated. 2. Greedy, voracious, rapacious.

Moby Thesaurus

Apician, a hog for, acquisitive, all-devouring, avaricious, avid, bolting, bottomless, clamorous, coveting, covetous, cramming, crapulent, crapulous, crying, demanding, devouring, edacious, esurient, exigent, glutting, gluttonizing, gluttonous, gobbling, gorging, grabby, grasping, greedy, gulping, guttling, guzzling, hoggish, hyperphagic, importunate, insatiate, insistent, intemperate, limitless, mercenary, miserly, money-hungry, money-mad, omnivorous, overgreedy, piggish, polyphagic, pressing, quenchless, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, slakeless, sordid, stuffing, swinish, unappeasable, unappeased, unquenchable, unsated, unsatisfiable, unsatisfied, unslakeable, unslaked, urgent, venal, voracious, wolfing, yearning