ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Stanchless

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Stanchless is an adjective meaning Incapable of being stanched or stopped.

Meaning

Incapable of being stanched or stopped.

More Meanings

  1. (obsolete, figurative) Incapable of being satisfied.

Example Sentences

A stanchlesse hart, dead-wounded, euer bleeding, On whom that nere-fild vulture Loue sits feeding.
In his little red notebook the following random thoughts formed and were jotted down, like the slow interior overflow of a stanchless music.
With this there grows In my most ill-composed affection such A stanchless avarice that, were I king, I should cut off the nobles for their lands,
And while I listed long, Day rose, and still he sang, And all his stanchless song, As something falling unaware, Fell out of the tall trees he sang among,

Synonyms for stanchless

Depending on context, synonyms include unstaunchable, unquenchable, insatiable.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include unstaunchable, unstanchable, unstaunched, unstillable, stopless, uncurbable.

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