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Answer for the clue "Constantly wanting more ", 9 letters:
insatiate

Word definitions for insatiate in dictionaries

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

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. insatiable

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., insaciate , from Latin insatiatus "unsatisfied," from in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + satiatus , past participle of satiare (see satiate ).

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Insatiate \In*sa"ti*ate\, a. [L. insatiatus.] Insatiable; as, insatiate thirst. The insatiate greediness of his desires. --Shak. And still insatiate, thirsting still for blood. --Hook.

Usage examples of insatiate.

Inattentive, or rather averse, to the welfare of his people, he found himself under the necessity of gratifying the insatiate avarice which he had excited in the army.

Why was it that, with his fierce, bitter, and insatiate hunger for life, his quenchless thirst for warmth, joy, love, and fellowship, his constant image, which had blazed in his heart since childhood, of the enchanted city of the great comrades and the glorious women, that he grew weary of people almost as soon as he met them?

The shaking of her gown and the snarl in the undergrowl sounded insatiate.

Slowly it floats more and more away, the water round it torn and splashed by the insatiate sharks, and the air above vexed with rapacious flights of screaming fowls, whose beaks are like so many insulting poniards in the whale.

He forgot the provocation, remembered only the injury, and advanced into the country of the Quadi with an insatiate thirst of blood and revenge.

I have a most insatiate desire to prove myself more and more worthy of you.