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# satiable

«satiable» in Mova's school dictionary: **Able to be satisfied or filled** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (satiable); in Kipling, «'satiable» short for insatiable

### meaning for a pupil

1) (rare) Able to be satisfied or filled. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/satiable/#m1)

2) (Just So Stories) In «The Elephant's Child», Kipling writes «'satiable curtiosity», meaning «insatiable curiosity» — a curiosity that can never be satisfied; the Elephant's Child keeps asking questions. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/satiable/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In «The Elephant's Child», the young elephant is «full of 'satiable curtiosity» and asks everyone questions, like «What does the Crocodile have for dinner?»; he gets spanked for it, but in the end his long trunk (pulled long by the Crocodile) helps him. The story praises curiosity. The real word for never satisfied is insatiable; satiable alone is rare.

### examples

- The Elephant's Child was full of 'satiable curtiosity. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/satiable/#x1)
- He asked the Kolokolo Bird about the Crocodile because of his 'satiable curtiosity. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/satiable/#x2)
- Her curiosity was insatiable — she never stopped asking why. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/satiable/#x3)
- A small appetite is easily satiable. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/satiable/#x4)
- Kipling made up the word «curtiosity» on purpose. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/satiable/#x5)
- Scientists need an insatiable curiosity. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/satiable/#x6)

### note

Rare in normal English. Opposite in meaning: insatiable (never satisfied), the common word. «Satiate» means fill completely; «sate» is the short form. Kipling's «'satiable curtiosity» is playful spelling, not standard.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «satiable» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/satiable/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.