insatiate
/ɪnˈseɪ.ʃɪt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.16 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Light vanitie inſatiate cormorant, / Conſuming meanes ſoone praies vpon it selfe: […]"
- "Satan exalted ſat, by merit raiſ'd / To that bad eminence; and from deſpair / Thus high uplifted beyond hope, aſpires / Beyond thus high, inſatiate to pursue / Vain Warr with Heav'n, and by ſucceſs untaught / His proud imaginations thus diſplaid."
- "I shuddered to think who might be the next victim sacrificed to his insatiate revenge."
- "A boy of eighteen years mid myrtle-boughs / Lying love-languid on a morn of May, / Watched half-asleep his goats insatiate browse / Thin shoots of thyme and lentisk, by the spray / Of biting sea-winds bitter made and grey: […]"
- "that mode of manning the fleet, a mode now fallen into a sort of abeyance but never formally renounced, it was not practicable to give up in those years. Its abrogation would have crippled the indispensable fleet, […] a fleet the more insatiate in demand for men, because then multiplying its ships of all grades against contingencies present and to come of the convulsed Continent."
- "Then again the heaving bosom of the Mediterranean, clothes strewn along the shore, running naked into the sea while wind-exported Andalusian odors spice the insatiate night!"
Etymology
From Late Middle English insaciate, insaciat, insacyate (“insatiable”), from Latin insatiātus, from in- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + satiātus (“satisfied; having been satisfied”) (perfect passive participle of satiō (“to satisfy”), from satis (“enough; filled; plenty”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂- (“to satiate, satisfy”)) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs)).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɪnˈseɪ.ʃɪt/
- British English: /ɪnˈseɪ.ʃɪət/
Usage
Inflected Forms
more insatiate (comparative)
most insatiate (superlative)