| Main Entry: | insatiable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | voracious, wanting |
Synonyms: |
clamorous, crying, demanding, desiring, exigent, gluttonous, greedy, importunate, insatiate, insistent, intemperate, pressing, quenchless, rapacious, ravenous, unappeasable, unquenchable, unsatisfiable, unsatisfied, urgent, yearning |
Antonyms: |
fulfilled, full, pleased, satiable, satisfied |
| Main Entry: | unsatisfied |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unfulfilled |
Synonyms: |
unhappy, unsatisfiable |
| Notes: | only a person can be dissatisfied while an abstract thing can be unsatisfied (hunger) unsatisfied implies that a wish, need, or expectation that previously existed has not been satisfied; dissatisfied implies no such prior existence, but simply registers a failure to be satisfied |
Antonyms: |
satisfied |