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quenchless

[kwench-lis]

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adjective

not capable of being quenched; unquenchable.

Origin of quenchless

First recorded in 1550–60; quench + -less

Related formsquench·less·ly, adverbquench·less·ness, noun

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019

Related Words for quenchless

rapacious, ravenous, insistent, urgent, insatiate, clamorous, crying, demanding, desiring, exigent, gluttonous, greedy, importunate, intemperate, pressing, unsatisfied, yearning, unappeasable, unquenchable

Examples from the Web for quenchless

Historical Examples of quenchless

Religion is the quenchless thirst of the human spirit for the Divine.
London Lectures of 1907
Annie Besant
Weissmann's eyes glowed with the quenchless zeal of the experimentalist.
The Tyranny of the Dark
Hamlin Garland
She had but one passionate and quenchless desire: the desire to share it with others.
A Handful of Stars
Frank W. Boreham
The island had been subject to the fury rain of a quenchless volcano.
Fifty-Two Stories For Girls
Various
The less is his faith, the greater is his quenchless curiosity.'
The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci
Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky