different between appease vs insatiable

English

Etymology

From Middle English apesen, from Old French apeser (“to pacify, bring to peace”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??pi?z/
• Rhymes: -i?z

Verb

appease (third-person singular simple present appeases, present participle appeasing, simple past and past participle appeased)

1. To make quiet; to calm; to reduce to a state of peace; to dispel (anger or hatred).

   Synonyms: calm, pacify, placate, quell, quiet, still, lull

   • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula Chapter 21

     'First, a little refreshment to reward my exertions. You may as well be quiet. It is not the first time, or the second, that your veins have appeased my thirst!'

2. To come to terms with; to adapt to the demands of.

   Synonyms: mollify, propitiate

Antonyms

• antagonize

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• appease in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• appease in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• paepaes

English

Etymology

From Old French insaciable, from Late Latin insatiabilis

Pronunciation

• Received Pronunciation (UK): [?n?se??j?b?l]

Adjective

insatiable (comparative more insatiable, superlative most insatiable)

1. Not satiable; incapable of being satisfied or appeased; very greedy
   • 1843 Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. 4, Abbot Hugo

     Hugo, in a fine frenzy, threatens to depose the Sacristan, to do this and do that; but, in the mean while, how to quiet your insatiable Jew? Hugo, for this couple of hundreds, grants the Jew his bond for four hundred payable at the end of four years. (...) Neither yet is this insatiable Jew satisfied or settled with: he had papers against us of 'small debts fourteen years old;' his modest claim amounts finally to 'Twelve hundred pounds besides interest'

   • 1885 — Gilbert & Sullivan, The Mikado [1]

     Such an appointment would realize my fondest dreams. But no, at any sacrifice, I must set bounds to my insatiable ambition!

Usage notes

• Nouns to which "insatiable" is often applied: appetite, desire, curiosity, thirst, hunger, need, greed.

Translations

Noun

insatiable (plural insatiables)

1. One who or that which cannot be satiated.

Further reading

• insatiable in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• insatiable at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• banalities

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin insati?bilis. Synchronically analysable as in- +? satiable.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.sa.sjabl/

Adjective

insatiable (plural insatiables)

1. insatiable

Further reading

• “insatiable” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle French

Adjective

insatiable m or f (plural insatiables)

1. insatiable