unappeasable
/'ʌnə'pi:zəbl/
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Impossible to satisfy, calm, or pacify: Describes something that cannot be made less severe, intense, or demanding. It refers to a quality that is inflexible and cannot be appeased or placated by pleas or attempts at satisfaction.
- Relentless; inexorable: Describes something that continues without becoming weaker or stopping, often with a sense of grim inevitability.
Usage
The adjective "unappeasable" is used to describe nouns, typically abstract concepts like anger, hunger, demands, or forces. It conveys a sense of absolute, uncompromising intensity. It is a formal word.
Examples
- The dictator had an unappeasable thirst for power.
- Her grief was unappeasable; no words of comfort could reach her.
- They faced the unappeasable demands of the harsh winter.
Advanced Usage
- "unappeasable wrath": Extreme anger that cannot be calmed.
- In the myth, the goddess unleashed her unappeasable wrath upon the city.
- "unappeasable curiosity": An insatiable desire to know.
- The scientist's unappeasable curiosity drove her to make groundbreaking discoveries.
Variants and Related Words
- Appease (verb): To pacify or satisfy.
- They tried to appease the angry crowd with promises.
- Appeasable (adjective): Capable of being appeased.
- Fortunately, his anger was appeasable with a sincere apology.
- Inexorable (adjective): Impossible to stop or prevent.
- Implacable (adjective): Unable to be placated; very determined.
Synonyms
- Implacable
- Inexorable
- Relentless
- Insatiable (for desires)
- Unquenchable (for thirst, desire)
Antonyms
- Appeasable
- Placable
- Satisfiable
- Flexible
Adjective
- not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty
- grim determination
- grim necessity
- Russia's final hour, it seemed, approached with inexorable certainty
- relentless persecution
- the stern demands of parenthood