insatiable
/ɪnˈseɪʃ(j)əbəl/
insatiable adjective: not satiable; incapable of being satisfied or appeased; very greedy.
Adjective
insatiable (comparative more insatiable, superlative most insatiable)
- Not satiable; incapable of being satisfied or appeased; very greedy.
- Hugo, in a fine frenzy, threatens to depose the Sacristan, to do this and do that; but, in the mean while, how to quiet your insatiable Jew? Hugo, for this couple of hundreds, grants the Jew his bond for four hundred payable at the end of four years. (...) Neither yet is this insatiable Jew...1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. 4, Abbot Hugo”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk)
- Guestling, who adds an insatiable jealousy to his other domestic virtues, vetoed the new acquaintance and thenceforward the two met hurriedly and furtively in town.1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC
Noun
insatiable (plural insatiables)
- One who or that which cannot be satiated.
insatiable meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
insatiable in Hindi
- insatiable
- तिश्ना tiśnā
insatiable in Tamil
- திருப்திப்படுத்த முடியாத, தணிக்க முடியாத, நிறைவு செய்ய இயலாத
insatiable in Marathi
- insatiable
- अधाशी adhāśī
insatiable in Urdu
- بےصبر, حریص, لالچی
More languagesFewer languages
- insatiable in Bengali
- চিরক্ষুধার্ত, অতৃপ্ত
- insatiable in Malayalam
- തൃപ്തിയാകാത്ത, മതിവരാത്ത, അസന്തുഷ്ടമായ
- insatiable in Odia
- ଅତୃପ୍ତ
- insatiable in Sanskrit
- असिन्व asinva
Examples of insatiable in a sentence
- Hugo, in a fine frenzy, threatens to depose the Sacristan, to do this and do that; but, in the mean while, how to quiet your insatiable Jew?1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. 4, Abbot Hugo”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James...
- But no, at any sacrifice, I must set bounds to my insatiable ambition!1885, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert; Arthur Sullivan, composer, […] The Mikado; or, The Town of Titipu, London: Chappel & Co., […], →OCLC:
- The girls are constantly reshuffled into new permutations in order to feed the J-pop market's insatiable demand for fresh looks and faces.2005 August 21, Chris Campion, “J-Pop's dream factory”, in The Observer, →ISSN, archived from the original on 11 Apr 2021:
Forms of insatiable
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more insatiable |
| superlative | most insatiable |
| Noun | |
| plural | insatiables |
Origin of insatiable
Inherited from Middle English insaciable, from Middle French insatiable, from Old French insaciable, from Late Latin insatiabilis. By surface analysis, in- + satiable.
Words formed from insatiable
Questions about insatiable
- What does insatiable mean?
- Insatiable means not satiable; incapable of being satisfied or appeased; very greedy.
- What is insatiable in Hindi?
- Insatiable in Hindi is तिश्ना (tiśnā). See Insatiable meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use insatiable in a sentence?
- Hugo, in a fine frenzy, threatens to depose the Sacristan, to do this and do that; but, in the mean while, how to quiet your insatiable Jew?
- What part of speech is insatiable?
- Insatiable can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce insatiable?
- Insatiable is pronounced /ɪnˈseɪʃ(j)əbəl/ (UK).
Words near insatiable in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: insatiable (page history and authors); तिश्ना (Hindi) (page history and authors); insatiable (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); अधाशी (Marathi) (page history and authors); insatiable (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); insatiable (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); insatiable (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); insatiable (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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