adj
Meaning 1
Not able to be appeased or satisfied.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
unappeasable
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adjective satellite
Meaning 2
not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- grim determination
- grim necessity
- Russia's final hour, it seemed, approached with inexorable certainty
- relentless persecution
- the stern demands of parenthood
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: grim, inexorable, relentless, stern, unforgiving, unrelenting
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English un- English appease Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dhlom Proto-Indo-European *-dhlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English appeasable English unappeasable From un- + appeasable.
Across languages
Translations
9 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: неутолим (neutolim) — not able to be appeased
- Italian: insaziabile — not able to be appeased
- Latin: implācābilis — not able to be appeased
- Manx: jioogh — not able to be appeased
- Manx: neuveeinagh — not able to be appeased
- Manx: neuveiyghagh — not able to be appeased
- Manx: gyn lhaggaghey — not able to be appeased
- Portuguese: inapaziguável — not able to be appeased
- Russian: непримири́мый (neprimirímyj) — not able to be appeased