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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
insatiable
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an insatiable desire (=a desire that cannot be satisfied)
▪ She had an insatiable desire for publicity.
insatiable curiosity (=used when someone is always curious)
▪ He had an insatiable curiosity about why people do the things they do.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
appetite
▪ Their observations concerning the insatiable appetite for immediate team success from the age of eight are so relevant.
▪ The underlying problem is the insatiable appetite of modern political campaigns for ever more cash.
▪ I've started reading your column in the Sunday Express but that won't satisfy my insatiable appetite for your peerless wit.
▪ The government is not some sinister monster gobbling up taxpayers' money simply to satisfy its own insatiable appetite.
▪ As one would expect of two old pros with an insatiable appetite for the game, we hardly stopped talking about football.
▪ She named him Albert, and gave him an insatiable appetite for ropes.
demand
▪ The fact is no government can meet the insatiable demand for ever more sophisticated medical technology by an ageing population.
▪ The remarkable Ceylonese railway network was built largely as a response to the insatiable demands of tea-planting from the 1880s.
desire
▪ The observer has an insatiable desire for abstract knowledge.
▪ Whatever the financial climate, there still seemed an insatiable desire to build more office space, rentable or not.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ an insatiable appetite for attention
▪ His curiosity about the natural world is insatiable.
▪ Humankind seems to have an insatiable urge to conquer and explore.
▪ She had an insatiable thirst for attention.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Insatiable

Insatiable \In*sa"tia*ble\, 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.

``Insatiable of glory.''
--Milton.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
insatiable

early 15c., insaciable, from Old French insaciable (13c.), or directly from Late Latin insatiabilis "not to be satisfied," from in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + satiabilis, from satiare (see satiate). Related: Insatiably.

Wiktionary
insatiable

a. Not satiable; incapable of being satisfied or appeased; very greedy; as, an insatiable appetite, thirst, or desire.

WordNet
insatiable

adj. impossible to satiate or satisfy; "an insatiable appetite"; "an insatiable hunger for knowledge" [syn: insatiate, unsatiable] [ant: satiate]

Wikipedia
Insatiable (Darren Hayes song)

"Insatiable" is the debut solo single released by Australian singer Darren Hayes, former lead singer of the band Savage Garden, in 2002. It became the lead single from his debut solo album, Spin. The song topped the New Zealand Singles Chart on 21 April 2002 for a single week, reached #3 on the Australian ARIA Charts on 21 January 2002, and #8 on the UK Singles Chart on 14 April.

Insatiable (Prince song)

"Insatiable" is a song by Prince and The New Power Generation, from the 1991 album Diamonds and Pearls. It is a slow, simmering ballad that often draws comparisons to 1989's " Scandalous!". The B-side was "I Love U in Me", which was originally the B-side to " The Arms of Orion". "Insatiable" was only released in the US as a 7" single, a 12" promo was sent only to Urban radio stations, and the track was not released to Pop radio stations. It performed well on the R&B chart, reaching number 3, but did not break the top 40 on the US Pop chart. Its single sales were moderate, and it received heavy airplay on Urban and UAC radio stations, but it did not make the Hot 100 Airplay (the R&B airplay chart did not appear until spring 1992).

Insatiable (film)

Insatiable is a classic pornographic movie released in 1980, at the close of the era of ' porn chic' in the US. It starred Marilyn Chambers and was directed by Stu Segall (credited as "Godfrey Daniels"). It was followed by a 1984 sequel, Insatiable II, also directed by Daniels. The series was "enormously popular", and the first film was the top-selling adult video in the U.S. from 1980-1982.

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Insatiable (novel)

Insatiable (2005) is an autobiographical novel from French PR worker Valérie Tasso.

Insatiable (album)

Insatiable is the debut studio album by Irish singer- songwriter and Girls Aloud member Nadine Coyle. The album was released on 8 November 2010 via Black Pen Records, a record label formed by Coyle in partnership with the UK's largest supermarket chain Tesco.

Insatiable (Nadine Coyle song)

"Insatiable" is the debut solo single by Irish recording artist Nadine Coyle. Co-written with Guy Chambers and produced by Ricci Riccardi, the song was released as the lead single from Coyle's debut solo album of the same name (2010). The accompanying music video for "Insatiable" was directed by Wayne Isham and features Coyle performing with a live band against various backdrops. It charted in Ireland, Scotland, the UK and charted on the European singles chart.

Insatiable (Warehouse 13)

"Insatiable" is the 10th episode of the third season of the SyFy television series Warehouse 13. It originally aired on September 19, 2011.

Insatiable (Elise Estrada song)

"Insatiable" is a song by the Canadian singer Elise Estrada. It peaked at #44 on Canadian Hot 100, and on the Canadian Adult Contemporary Top 40 at #1 and is in radio station CFBT-FM's regular rotation. The song received heavy airplayed in Canada, and has been a Canadian classic by some stations.

"Insatiable" was received positive reviews by critics among the single and the album. It infuses with majority Pop and soul with funk, as well with infusing Electropop and R&B into the song. The song samples Prince's " I Wanna Be Your Lover" as the bass of the song. The music video for this song was directed by Ali Visnaji. The videos about a stalker Estrada encounters with and talks through her song, it also depicts Estrada dancing and singing with her dancers in Vancouver downtown at a plaza. To this date, Estrada only performed this song during Filipino Day 2007, Summer Rush Wonderland 2007, a concert series in Guilford Town Centre, and Summer Rush Wonderland 2008.

Usage examples of "insatiable".

I am a very unpleasant pupil, always asking questions, curious, troublesome, insatiable, and even supposing that I could meet with the teacher I require, I am afraid I am not rich enough to pay him.

Others are driven to cybersex out of loneliness, dependency, anger, or a deep insatiable emptiness that demands to be filled.

Between them and the vision, between the fecund San Joaquin, reeking with fruitfulness, and the millions of Asia crowding toward the verge of starvation, lay the iron-hearted monster of steel and steam, implacable, insatiable, huge--its entrails gorged with the life blood that it sucked from an entire commonwealth, its ever hungry maw glutted with the harvests that should have fed the famished bellies of the whole world of the Orient.

For the roosters, after months of peaceful childhood and adolescence, had suddenly become inhabited both by devils andjjy an insatiable appetite for feathered pussy, and this combination caused them to go positively gaga with lust.

He had learned it so that, with his insatiable curiosity, his archaeological instinct, he should be able to compare it with the Nautch dance of India, the Hula-Hula of the Sandwich Islanders, the Siva of the Samoans.

Kutsi Merc, with his insatiable lust for life, could have made it to the Nepts that night.

By the time she discovered that they were fleeing in droves to San Basilio de Palenque to escape her insatiable craving, it was too late.

And truly, after a quiet sleep, the morning was for her a succession of fresh triumphs, and I crowned her happiness by sending her away with three doubloons, which she took to her mother, and which gave the good woman an insatiable desire to contract new obligations towards Providence.

Mungo, near thirty years of age, was an insatiable wencher on land and a predatory pederast at sea.

Rather than being the epitome of poetic grace in which everything fits together with inflexible elegance, the multiverse and the anthropic principle paint a picture of a wildly excessive collection of universes with an insatiable appetite for variety.

The insatiable few were still clapping and stamping assiduously when Magda, after taking innumerable calls, at last came off the stage.

And indeed she behaved very well, as Perdita, knowing her insatiable love of millinery, was quite ready to declare.

What other results could have been expected when American society began to overvalue on the one hand security, censorship, an imagined world-saving idealism and self-sacrifice in war, and on the other hand insatiable hunger for possessions, fiercely competitive aggressiveness, sadistic male belligerence, contempt for parents and the state, and a fantastically overstimulated sexuality?

It is you, curious prattlers, who behold the first mysteries, touches, trembling yet chaste, glances that are already insatiable, who begin to trace on the heart, as a tentative sketch, the ineffaceable image of cherished beauty!

He knew now that Priestess Poogli was indeed a throwback, because stirring inside that asteroidic hulk were procreative yearnings that at odd moments overpowered even the insatiable greed.