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insatiable
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)
- 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!
- 1843 Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. 4, Abbot Hugo
Usage notes
- Nouns to which "insatiable" is often applied: appetite, desire, curiosity, thirst, hunger, need, greed.
Translations
Noun
insatiable (plural insatiables)
- 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)
- 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)
- insatiable
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taxonomy
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French taxonomie. Surface analysis taxo- +? -nomy.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /tæk?s?n?mi/
- (US) IPA(key): /tæk?s??n?mi/
- Rhymes: -?n?mi
Noun
taxonomy (countable and uncountable, plural taxonomies)
- The science or the technique used to make a classification.
- A classification; especially, a classification in a hierarchical system.
- (taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.
Synonyms
- taxonomics
- (science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms): alpha taxonomy
Coordinate terms
- nomenclature
- ontology
Derived terms
Translations
taxonomy From the web:
- what taxonomy means
- what taxonomy are humans
- what taxonomy do humans belong to
- what taxonomy is not a type of taxonomy
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