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INSATIATE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does insatiate mean?
• INSATIATE (adjective)
The adjective INSATIATE has 1 sense:
1. impossible to satisfy
Familiarity information: INSATIATE used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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)
Antonym:
satiate (supplied (especially fed) to satisfaction)
Context examples
I shuddered to think who might be the next victim sacrificed to his insatiate revenge.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
When he had done, instead of feeling better, calmer, more enlightened by his discourse, I experienced an inexpressible sadness; for it seemed to me—I know not whether equally so to others—that the eloquence to which I had been listening had sprung from a depth where lay turbid dregs of disappointment—where moved troubling impulses of insatiate yearnings and disquieting aspirations.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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