insatiable

English

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English insaciable, from Middle French insatiable, from Old French insaciable, from Late Latin insatiabilis. by surface analysis, in- +‎ satiable.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈseɪʃ(j)əbəl/, /ɪnˈseɪʃi.əbəl/

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Adjective

insatiable (comparative more insatiable, superlative most insatiable)

1. Not satiable; incapable of being satisfied or appeased; very greedy.
   • 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):

     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'

   • 1885, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, composer, […] The Mikado; or, The Town of Titipu, London: Chappel & Co., […], →OCLC:

     Such an appointment would realize my fondest dreams. But no, at any sacrifice, I must set bounds to my insatiable ambition!

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Collocations

with nouns

• insatiable appetite
• insatiable desire
• insatiable curiosity
• insatiable thirst
• insatiable hunger
• insatiable need
• insatiable greed

Translations

not satiable; incapable of being satisfied or appeased

• Armenian: անկուշտ (hy) (ankušt)
• Bulgarian: ненаситен (bg) (nenasiten)
• Catalan: insaciable
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 無法滿足的／无法满足的 (wúfǎ mǎnzú de), 貪得無厭的／贪得无厌的 (zh) (tāndéwúyàn de), 貪心／贪心 (zh) (tānxīn)

• Czech: neukojitelný
• Danish: umættelig
• Esperanto: nesatigebla
• Finnish: tyydyttämätön, kyltymätön (fi)
• French: insatiable (fr)
• Galician: insaciable (gl), insaciábel (gl)
• Georgian: გაუმაძღარი (gaumaʒɣari)
• German: unersättlich (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἀκόρεστος (akórestos), ἄπληστος (áplēstos)

• Hungarian: telhetetlen (hu), kielégíthetetlen (hu)
• Italian: insaziabile (it), incontentabile (it)
• Japanese: 飽くことを知らない (あくことをしらない, akukoto o shiranai)
• Lithuanian: nepasotinamas
• Norwegian: umettelig
• Polish: nienasycony (pl) m
• Portuguese: insaciável (pt) m or f
• Russian: ненасы́тный (ru) (nenasýtnyj)
• Sanskrit: असिन्व (sa) (asinva)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: незаја̀жљив

  Roman: nezajàžljiv (sh)

• Spanish: insaciable (es)
• Swedish: omättlig (sv)
• Tocharian B: ontsoytte
• Ukrainian: ненаситний (nenasytnyj)

Noun

insatiable (plural insatiables)

1. One who or that which cannot be satiated.

Further reading

• “insatiable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “insatiable”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• banalities

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French insatiable, from Old French insaciable, from Latin īnsatiābilis. by surface analysis, in- +‎ satiable.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.sa.sjabl/

Adjective

insatiable (plural insatiables)

1. insatiable

Further reading

• “insatiable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Middle French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French insaciable, from Latin insatiābilis. by surface analysis, in- +‎ satiable.

Adjective

insatiable m or f (plural insatiables)

1. insatiable

Descendants

• French: insatiable
• → Middle English: insaciable
  • English: insatiable