INSATIABLE


Meaning of INSATIABLE in English

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.

Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary.      Дополнительный английский словарь Longman DOCE5.