Insatiable vs Avid - What's the difference?
insatiable | avid |
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]
enthusiastic; passionate; longing eagerly; eager; greedy
* 1996 , , Oyster , Virago Press, paperback edition, page 3
As adjectives the difference between insatiable and avid
is that insatiable is not satiable; incapable of being satisfied or appeased; very greedy; as, an insatiable appetite, thirst, or desire while avid is enthusiastic; passionate; longing eagerly; eager; greedy.insatiable
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!
Usage notes
* Nouns to which "insatiable" is often applied: appetite, desire, curiosity, thirst, hunger, need, greed.External links
* *Anagrams
* ----avid
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- I'm an avid reader.
- We waited for something to happen, for anything to happen, we were avid for some event to unfold itself out of the burning nothing to save us.
