insatiable thirst
- noun
- /ɪnˈseɪʃəbl θɜrst/
- He had an insatiable thirst for knowledge.
Examples
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His insatiable thirst for adventure led him to travel to remote corners of the world.
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Despite achieving so much, she felt an insatiable thirst for knowledge that could never be fully satisfied.
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After her promotion, she developed an insatiable thirst for success and recognition.
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Her insatiable thirst for adventure drove her to travel the world.
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Many people have an insatiable thirst for knowledge that drives them to read every book they can find.
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The team's insatiable thirst for victory pushed them to train harder than ever before for the championship.
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After a long day of hiking, I felt an insatiable thirst for water, as if I could never drink enough.
Synonyms
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3.7
A very strong desire for things like food or cigarettes
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5.5
A strong, lasting wish for something you want but cannot get
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8.4
A very strong hunger or want for something you cannot get enough of
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8.4
Always wanting more and never having enough
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7.9
A very strong desire for more food, money or success
A strong wish to have or try something
A strong desire to have or do something
Antonyms
How Intense
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'insatiable' means unable to be satisfied and 'thirst' means a strong craving, so together they transparently convey an intense, unending desire. This construction follows obvious semantic combination patterns (and similar metaphors exist across many languages), so a learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Insatiable thirst comes from the simple picture of a person who keeps drinking but never feels less thirsty, where insatiable means 'cannot be satisfied' and thirst is the need to drink. So, it now means 'a strong, never-ending desire', like a want for success or knowledge.