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Definition: Quenchless |
QuenchlessAdjective1. Impossible to quench; "unquenchable thirst". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "quenchless" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1591. (references) |
Synonym: QuenchlessSynonym: unquenchable (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Greed | Greedy as a hog; overeager; voracious; ravenous, ravenous as a wolf; openmouthed, extortionate, exacting, sordid, alieni appetens; insatiable, insatiate; unquenchable, quenchless; omnivorous. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Lord Byron | As falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition's hands. |
William Blake | All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
quenchless | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "quenchless"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i pashueshëm, i pashuar (inextinguishable, insatiable, undamped, unquenchable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | неутолим (inextinguishable, insatiable, insatiate, slakeless, unappeasable, unquenchable), непотушим (irrepressible). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | neuhasitelný (inextinguishable, unquenchable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | unlöschlich. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ακατάσβεστοσ (inextinguishable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | csillapíthatatlan (sateless, unappeasable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | perenne (everlasting, perennial, perpetual), irreprimibile (irrepressible), inestinguibile (inextinguishable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | enchlessquay inextinguível (never-dying, unquenchable). (various references) неугасимый (inextinguishable, unquenchable). (various references) neutoljiv (immitigable, implacable, inextinguishable, unappeasable, unquenchable), neugasiv (inextinguishable, unquenchable). (various references) inextinguible (inextinguishable, unquenchable), inapagable (inextinguishable). (various references) outsläcklig (inextinguishable). (various references) sönmez (inextinguishable, unquenchable), giderilemez, geçmez. (various references) невтолимий, невгасимий (inextinguishable). (various references) không dập tắt được. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Words rhyming with "quenchless" (pronounced 'Quench"less'): Actless, Ageless, Aidless, Aimless, Airless, Aisless, Approachless, Armless, Artless, Assistless, Avoidless, Awless, Awnless, Backless, Badgeless, Barkless, Baseless, Bashless, Bateless, Beamless, Beardless, Birthless, Bitless, Blameless, Blissless, Bloodless, Bloomless, Blotless, Blushless, Boastless, Boneless, Bookless, Bootless, Boteless, Boundless, Bournless, Bowless, Bractless, Bragless, Brainless, Branchless, Breadless, Breadthless, Breathless, Breezeless, Bribeless, Bridgeless, Briefless, Brimless, Browless. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-h-l-n-q-s-s-u" | |
-1 letter: squelches. | |
-2 letters: elenchus, quenches. | |
-3 letters: cheques, hueless, lunches, sequels, squelch. | |
-4 letters: censes, census, cheque, ensues, leches, lenses, lessen, lushes, queens, quench, scenes, schuln, sequel, sheens, sheqel, sneesh, uncles, unless. | |
-5 letters: cense, chess, clues, eches, ensue, heels, hence, leech, lenes, lense, luces, lunch, lunes, queen, scene, schul, seels, sense, sheen, shuln, shuls, shuns, slues, slush, uncle. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-h-l-n-q-s-s-u" | |
+4 letters: cliquishnesses. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Quotations: Familiar 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Rhymes 7. Anagrams 8. Bibliography |
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