unsatiable
unsatiable is the obsolete form of insatiable.
Meaning of insatiable
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)
Forms of unsatiable
| comparative | more unsatiable |
|---|---|
| superlative | most unsatiable |
Origin of unsatiable
From un- + satiable.
Words formed from unsatiable
Questions about unsatiable
- What is unsatiable the obsolete form of?
- Unsatiable is the obsolete form of insatiable.
Words near unsatiable in the dictionary
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