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insatiate

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Adjective

HYPHEN

in=sa=ti=ate

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective insatiate has 1 sense

insatiate(a = adj.all) insatiable, unsatiable - impossible to satisfy; "an insatiate appetite"; "an insatiable demand for old buildings to restore"; "his passion for work was unsatiable"

Antonym: satiate

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CIDE DICTIONARY

insatiate, a. [L. insatiatus.].

Insatiable; as, insatiate thirst. [1913 Webster]

"The insatiate greediness of his desires." [1913 Webster]

"And still insatiate, thirsting still for blood." [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

insatiate, adj. never satisfied.

Etymology

L insatiatus (as IN-(1), SATIATE)

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ROGET THESAURUS

insatiate

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.

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