Synonyms for insatiable
- adjective
Most common
All synonyms
Adjective
1. Voracious
voracious, unquenchable, ravenous, rapacious, greedy, omnivorous, ravening, unsatisfied, unsatisfiable, unappeasable, unsated, esurient, unsatiable, gluttonous, edacious formal, insatiate formal dated
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Definitions
- adj. 1
Not satiable; incapable of being satisfied or appeased; very greedy.
Example sentences
- voracious Piranhas are big, voracious fish with sharp teeth.
- ravenous Whenever I'm worried, I work up a ravenous appetite.
- rapacious Ukrainians don't deserve to be invaded by a rapacious army.
- unquenchable She has an unquenchable desire for justice.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| insatiable | rising | |
| voracious | rising | |
| ravenous | rising | |
| rapacious | rising | |
| unquenchable | rising | |
| quenchless | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 6 letters
- greedy2
- 7 letters
- unsated
- 8 letters
- ravenous3, ravening, esurient, edacious
- 9 letters
- voracious3, rapacious3, insatiate
- 10 letters
- omnivorous4, gluttonous3, unsatiable, quenchless, stanchless
- 11 letters
- unsatisfied4
- 12 letters
- unquenchable, unappeasable
- 13 letters
- unsatisfiable
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (greedy2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- insatiable
- Italiano
- insaziabile
- Deutsch
- unersättlich