slakeless

English

Etymology

slake +‎ -less

Adjective

slakeless (comparative more slakeless, superlative most slakeless)

1. (archaic, poetic) Not capable of being slaked.

   Synonyms: unquenchable, unrelievable

   • c. 1600, Richard Linche, Diella, Sonnet XXX:

     my slakelesse payne hells horror doth exceede

   • 1821, Lord Byron, The Prophecy of Dante, Canto 1:

     Who sleeps to dream of blood, and waking glows
     With the oft-baffled, slakeless thirst of change

References

• “slakeless”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.