unquenchable
adjEtymology From un- + quenchable.
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That cannot be quenched.
- After a twelve-mile run in the hot sun, his thirst felt unquenchable.
- Alas! thus ever does the weakness of our nature rebuke its strength, and genius is brought to the level—ay, below the level—of common humanity, by an unquenchable thirst for its applause.1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, pages 3–4:
2 more examples
- With an unquenchable enthusiasm for locomotives and their work, at an early age I had commenced to keep engine and traffic-recording notebooks, compiled in a schoolboy's round hand.1946 March and April, R. A. H. Weight, “Euston to the North-West”, in Railway Magazine, page 69:
- President Trump did not need to warp intelligence to justify his decision. But he did anyway, to satisfy his unquenchable ego.2025 June 28, Maureen Dowd, “Obfuscating on Obliterating”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
- Derived terms
- unquenchableness, unquenchably