unassuageable
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9.9
- adjective
- /ˌʌnəˈsweɪdʒəbl/
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inextinguible
- How "dear" is his obtuse refusal to see her side of grief, to deny her irrational need to look back at their loss, her panic to abandon him and his ways, her unassuageable desperation to join another in her grief?
Examples
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To Allen, it's me and my frustration: unsatisfied need, unassuageable girls, and nonnegotiable guilt.
Academic text (2008) -
By the second Friday of her vacation, a dusky day made gray with rain, the longing to understand her visitation was unassuageable.
Fiction book (1995) -
Her unassuageable grief after the loss of her pet made it hard for her to find joy in anything else.
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He felt an unassuageable hunger for knowledge that drove him to read every book he could find.
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The team's unassuageable desire to win the championship fueled their rigorous training and dedication.
Synonyms
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7.4
A strong want or need no one can satisfy
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9.9
A person or feeling that always wants more and is never pleased
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9.9
Too strong to be satisfied like thirst or curiosity
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8.7
Impossible to do or make happen
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Not able to be made whole or replaced
Impossible to calm or satisfy
Does not calm down no matter what you do
Impossible to satisfy no matter what others do
Too strong to satisfy, stop, or put out
Not possible to make less painful or severe
You cannot make it less serious or less strong
Cannot become smaller or weaker
Not able to be defeated or controlled
Antonyms
How Satisfied
Surface Forms
Morphology
unassuageable = assuageable (transparent) = un + assuage + able
The word is formed by prefixing 'un-' to 'assuageable', yielding a regular negation meaning 'not able to be assuaged'.
Etymology
The word unassuageable begins with un- meaning 'not' and contains assuage, which comes from a Latin root that meant 'to make sweet' or 'to ease'. So, unassuageable means something you cannot calm or satisfy.