INSATIABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does insatiable mean? 

• INSATIABLE (adjective)
  The adjective INSATIABLE has 1 sense:

1. impossible to satisfy

  Familiarity information: INSATIABLE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INSATIABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Impossible to satisfy

Synonyms:

insatiable; insatiate; unsatiable

Context example:

his passion for work was unsatiable

Similar:

quenchless; unquenchable (impossible to quench)

unsated; unsatiated; unsatisfied (not having been satisfied)

unsatisfiable (not capable of being satisfied)

 Context examples 

I stayed but two months with my wife and family, for my insatiable desire of seeing foreign countries, would suffer me to continue no longer.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Reason, and not feeling, is my guide; my ambition is unlimited: my desire to rise higher, to do more than others, insatiable.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It is insatiable with microscopic desire.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He seemed possessed by an insatiable fury which gave no time for grief.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He did not want to bite the hand, and he endured the peril of it until his instinct surged up in him, mastering him with its insatiable yearning for life.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The completion of my demoniacal design became an insatiable passion.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I have said that the man was intelligent, and this very intelligence has caused his ruin, for it seems to have led to an insatiable curiosity about things which did not in the least concern him.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The shock of such an event happening so suddenly, and happening to one with whom I had been in any respect at variance—the appalling vacancy in the room he had occupied so lately, where his chair and table seemed to wait for him, and his handwriting of yesterday was like a ghost—the indefinable impossibility of separating him from the place, and feeling, when the door opened, as if he might come in—the lazy hush and rest there was in the office, and the insatiable relish with which our people talked about it, and other people came in and out all day, and gorged themselves with the subject—this is easily intelligible to anyone.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The frequent labours I underwent every day, made, in a few weeks, a very considerable change in my health: the more my master got by me, the more insatiable he grew.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

But when I discovered that he, the author at once of my existence and of its unspeakable torments, dared to hope for happiness, that while he accumulated wretchedness and despair upon me he sought his own enjoyment in feelings and passions from the indulgence of which I was for ever barred, then impotent envy and bitter indignation filled me with an insatiable thirst for vengeance.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)