unquenched

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adjective

Not quenched.

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unabated
OriginEnglish quenched ← Middle English un- ← Old English un- →
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Meanings

adjectiveunquenched (not comparable)
  1. not comparableNot quenched.

    Oklahoma City's 1.2 million people had no professional sports team and the unquenched willingness to support one.

    2009 January 6, Jonathan Abrams, “For Oklahoma City Thunder, Wins Don't Come, but Fans Do”, in New York Times
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    Hence they are eloquent, not of the present, disintegrating society and psyche, but of the unquenched source through which society is reborn.

    1968, Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 2nd edition, London: Fontana Press, published 1993, page 20

    Synonyms: unabated

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveNot quenched.

Similar
unabated

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*né
  2. Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
  3. Proto-Germanic*un-
  4. Proto-West Germanic*un-
  5. Old Englishun-
  6. Middle Englishun-
  7. Englishun-
  8. Englishquenched
  9. Englishunquenched

From un- + quenched.

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Cite this entry
APA

unquenched. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unquenched

MLA

“unquenched.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unquenched. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unquenched,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unquenched.

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