Hungry vs Insatiable - What's the difference?
hungry | insatiable |
Affected by hunger; desiring of food; having a physical need for food.
(figuratively) Eager, having an avid desire ('appetite') for something.
* Charles Kingsley
* Shakespeare
Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; starved.
* Shakespeare
Not satiable; incapable of being satisfied or appeased; very greedy; as, an insatiable appetite, thirst, or desire.
* 1843'' '', book 2, ch. 4, ''Abbot Hugo
* 1885 — [http://books.google.com/books?id=ZgVUqbK-_1EC&pg=PA19&dq=mikado++insatiable&sig=a932jEhYrf-l6EOJvgvNfxO6kHE]
As adjectives the difference between hungry and insatiable
is that hungry is affected by hunger; desiring of food; having a physical need for food while insatiable is not satiable; incapable of being satisfied or appeased; very greedy; as, an insatiable appetite, thirst, or desire.hungry
English
Adjective
(er)- My kids go to bed hungry every night because I haven't got any money .
- The cruel, hungry foam.
- Cassius has a lean and hungry look.
- a hungry soil
- The hungry beach.
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* * 1000 English basic wordsinsatiable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- 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'
- Such an appointment would realize my fondest dreams. But no, at any sacrifice, I must set bounds to my insatiable ambition!