单词 | insatiable |
释义 | insatiable (once / 2260 pages) adj If someone can't be satisfied, she is insatiable. After being lost in the woods eating only berries for a few days, you'll find your hunger is insatiable once you finally get to the table. Insatiable comes from the combination of the negative prefix, in- and the Latin verb satiare, for fill. Someone who is insatiable can never be full. It can be used for spiritual as well as physical desires. Swift's traveling Gulliver talks about his "insatiable desire of seeing foreign countries." Perhaps you have an insatiable desire to learn all the words in the English language. Synonyms are unappeasable and gluttonous. WORD FAMILYinsatiable: insatiably+/insatiate: insatiately/satiable: insatiable, unsatiable/satiate: insatiate, satiable, satiated, satiates, satiating, satiation/satiated: unsatiated/satiation: satiations/unsatiable: unsatiably USAGE EXAMPLES“There is an insatiable demand for language in the school system at the earliest possible age,” O’Neill said. Washington Post(Dec 25, 2016) Demand once seemed insatiable for flights through Emirates’ hub in Dubai, which is known in the industry as a “super-connector” airport. Economist(Nov 24, 2016) But he also provides the pulse for these Warriors and, like Motley before him, leads by example with an insatiable work ethic, according to Fuller. Washington Post(Nov 23, 2016) adj impossible to satisfy an insatiable demand for old buildings to restore Syn|Ant insatiate, unsatiable quenchless, unquenchable impossible to quench unsated, unsatiated, unsatisfiednot having been satisfied unsatisfiablenot capable of being satisfied satiate, satiated supplied (especially fed) to satisfaction jadeddulled by surfeit satiable, satisfiablecapable of being sated |
随便看 |
英语词典包含147318条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。