insatiable

insatiable
Not satiable; incapable of being satisfied or appeased; very greedy; as, an insatiable appetite, thirst, or desire.

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 satisfied or settled with: he had papers against us of small debts fourteen years old; his modest claim amounts finally to Twelve hundred pounds besides interest


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  • insatiable — [ ɛ̃sasjabl ] adj. • insaciable XIIIe; lat. insatiabilis ♦ Qui ne peut être rassasié (rare au concret). Une soif insatiable. ⇒ inapaisable , inassouvissable. Un appétit insatiable. ⇒ vorace. ♢ (Abstrait) Qui ne se satisfait jamais. « insatiable… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

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  • insatiable — Insatiable. adj. de t. g. Qui ne peut estre rassasié. Appetit insatiable. il a une faim canine. il est insatiable. Il se dit plus ordinairement au figuré. Avarice insatiable. il ne se contente de rien, il est insatiable. insatiable de gloire.… …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie française

  • 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. [1913 Webster] Insatiable of glory. Milton.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • insatiable — I adjective acquisitive, avaricious, covetous, craving, discontented, gluttonous, grasping, greedy, hoggish, incapable of being satisfied, inexplebilis, insatiabilis, intemperate, piggish, quenchless, rapacious, selfish, unappeasable, unfilled,… …   Law dictionary

  • insatiable — (adj.) early 15c., insaciable, from O.Fr. insaciable (13c.), or directly from L.L. insatiabilis not to be satisfied, from in not, opposite of (see IN (Cf. in ) (1)) + satiabilis, from satiare (see SATIATE (Cf. satiate)). Related: Insatiably …   Etymology dictionary

  • insatiable — [adj] voracious, wanting clamorous, crying, demanding, desiring, exigent, gluttonous, greedy, importunate, insatiate, insistent, intemperate, pressing, quenchless, rapacious, ravenous, unappeasable, unquenchable, unsatisfiable, unsatisfied,… …   New thesaurus

  • insatiable — Insatiable, Insatiabilis et inexplebilis, Insaturabilis …   Thresor de la langue françoyse

  • insatiable — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ impossible to satisfy. DERIVATIVES insatiability noun insatiably adverb …   English terms dictionary

  • insatiable — [in sā′shə bəl, in sā′shē əbəl] adj. [see IN 2 & SATIATE] constantly wanting more; that cannot be satisfied or appeased; very greedy insatiability n. insatiably adv …   English World dictionary

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