different between utmost vs insatiable

English

Etymology

From Middle English utmest, utemest [and other forms], from Old English ?tmest, ?temest [and other forms], from ?t, ?te (“out; outdoors, outside”) + -mest (suffix meaning ‘furthest’, used to form superlatives of some adjectives) (and conflated with most). ?t is derived from Proto-Germanic *?t (“out, outward”), from Proto-Indo-European *úd (“out, outward”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??tm?(??)st/
• (General American) enPR: ?t'm?st, IPA^(key): /??tmo??st/, [???-], [??t-]
• Hyphenation: ut?most

Adjective

utmost (not comparable)

1. Situated at the most distant limit; farthest, outermost.

   Synonyms: outmost, uttermost, yondermost
2. The most extreme; greatest, ultimate.

Derived terms

• utmostly

Related terms

• outermost
• outmost
• uttermost

Translations

Noun

utmost (countable and uncountable, plural utmosts)

1. The greatest possible capability, extent, or quantity; maximum.

   Synonym: yondermost

Translations

References

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