Insatiable

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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           "Insatiable of glory."                   --Milton.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  insatiable
       adj : impossible to satiate or satisfy; "an insatiable appetite";
             "an insatiable hunger for knowledge" [syn: {insatiate},
              {unsatiable}] [ant: {satiate}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  68 Moby Thesaurus words for "insatiable":
     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