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unslakable
adjective
literary(alsounslakeable)uk /ʌnˈsleɪ.kə.bəl/ us /ʌnˈsleɪ.kə.bəl/
An unslakable feeling of being thirsty, or of wanting something, cannot be satisfied:
His thirst was unslakable and he was sleeping up to 16 hours a day.
What is remarkable about her is not the sheer number of records she holds, but her unslakeable appetite for more.
Her unslakeable curiosity was part of her appeal.
His unslakable thirst for artistic challenge led him to expand the boundaries of performance as no previous male dancer had.
We will miss his unslakeable ambition.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Feeling sad and unhappy
a long faceidiom
abjection
angsty
be cut upidiom
be down in the mouthidiom
be in a funkidiom
dismayed
displeased
dissatisfied
distraught
distressed
lachrymose
lonely
lonesome
lovelorn
wistful
wistfully
woe
woe is meidiom
woebegone
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Wanting things
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