insatiable

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: in=sa=tia=ble
• COUNT in NET: 3 in 3 verses (in OT : 2 in 2 verses) (in NT : 1 in 1 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

insatiable, 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.”"  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

insatiable, adj.
1 unable to be satisfied.
2 (usu. foll. by of) extremely greedy.

Derivative

insatiability n. insatiably adv.

Etymology

ME f. OF insaciable or L insatiabilis (as IN-(1), SATIATE)

THESAURUS

insatiable

Apician, a hog for, acquisitive, all-devouring, avaricious, avid, bolting, bottomless, clamorous, coveting, covetous, cramming, crapulent, crapulous, crying, demanding, devouring, edacious, esurient, exigent, glutting, gluttonizing, gluttonous, gobbling, gorging, grabby, grasping, greedy, gulping, guttling, guzzling, hoggish, hyperphagic, importunate, insatiate, insistent, intemperate, limitless, mercenary, miserly, money-hungry, money-mad, omnivorous, overgreedy, piggish, polyphagic, pressing, quenchless, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, slakeless, sordid, stuffing, swinish, unappeasable, unappeased, unquenchable, unsated, unsatisfiable, unsatisfied, unslakeable, unslaked, urgent, venal, voracious, wolfing, yearning

ROGET THESAURUS

insatiable

Greed

N greed, covetousness, ravenousness, venality, avidity, cupidity, acquisitiveness (acquisition), desire, greed, greediness, avarice, avidity, rapacity, extortion, selfishness, auri sacra fames, grasping, craving, canine appetite, rapacity, greedy, avaricious, covetous, acquisitive, grasping, rapacious, lickerish, greedy as a hog, overeager, voracious, ravenous, ravenous as a wolf, openmouthed, extortionate, exacting, sordid, alieni appetens, insatiable, insatiate, unquenchable, quenchless, omnivorous.