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unquenchable

unquenchable adjective: that cannot be quenched.

Adjective

unquenchable (comparative more unquenchable, superlative most unquenchable)

  1. That cannot be quenched.
    • After a twelve-mile run in the hot sun, his thirst felt unquenchable.
    • Alas! thus ever does the weakness of our nature rebuke its strength, and genius is brought to the level—ay, below the level—of common humanity, by an unquenchable thirst for its applause.1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, pages 3–4

unquenchable meaning in Bengali

unquenchable in Bengali

দমানো, মিটানো যায় না

Examples of unquenchable in a sentence

  • With an unquenchable enthusiasm for locomotives and their work, at an early age I had commenced to keep engine and traffic-recording notebooks, compiled in a schoolboy's round hand.1946 March and April, R. A. H. Weight, “Euston to the North-West”, in Railway Magazine, page 69:
  • But he did anyway, to satisfy his unquenchable ego.2025 June 28, Maureen Dowd, “Obfuscating on Obliterating”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Forms of unquenchable

comparativemore unquenchable
superlativemost unquenchable

Origin of unquenchable

From un- + quenchable.

Words formed from unquenchable

Questions about unquenchable

What does unquenchable mean?
Unquenchable means that cannot be quenched.
What is unquenchable in Bengali?
Unquenchable in Bengali is দমানো, মিটানো যায় না. See Unquenchable meaning in Bengali.
How do you use unquenchable in a sentence?
With an unquenchable enthusiasm for locomotives and their work, at an early age I had commenced to keep engine and traffic-recording notebooks, compiled in a schoolboy's round hand.
What part of speech is unquenchable?
Unquenchable is an adjective.

Words near unquenchable in the dictionary

  1. unqueered
  2. unquellable
  3. unquelled
  4. unquench
  5. unquenchability
  6. unquenchable
  7. unquenchableness
  8. unquenchably
  9. unquenched
  10. unquenches
  11. unquenching

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