Meanings
comparative more unappeasable · superlative most unappeasable
- Not able to be appeased or satisfied.
The old woman snatched the note, mouthing unappeasable resentment. "Never think ye'll get out of it for all I take your dirty money," she whistled, her breath gone in the clutch of gratified rapacity.
1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 201
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivenot to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Germanic*un-
- Proto-West Germanic*un-
- Old Englishun-
- Middle Englishun-
- Englishun-
- Englishappease
- Englishappeasable
- Englishunappeasable
From un- + appeasable.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian неутолим
- неутолим (neutolim)not able to be appeased
Italian insaziabile
- insaziabilenot able to be appeased
Latin implācābilis
- implācābilisnot able to be appeased
Portuguese inapaziguável
- inapaziguávelnot able to be appeased
Russian непримири́мый
- непримири́мый (neprimirímyj)not able to be appeased
Cite this entry
unappeasable. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unappeasable
“unappeasable.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unappeasable. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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