unsatisfiable

1. 1.

   not capable of being satisfied

   “he knew the trap of unsatisfiable longing”

   Similarinsatiate

Questions about unsatisfiable

What does unsatisfiable mean?

unsatisfiable means "not capable of being satisfied".

How many syllables are in unsatisfiable?

unsatisfiable has 6 syllables and divides as un-sa-tis-fi-a-ble under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is unsatisfiable a common word?

unsatisfiable is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.