satiable

American  

[sey-shuh-buhl, -shee-uh-] / ˈseɪ ʃə bəl, -ʃi ə- /

adjective

1. capable of being satiated.

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satiable British  

/ ˈseɪʃə-, ˈseɪʃɪəbəl /

adjective

1. capable of being satiated

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Other Word Forms

• nonsatiability noun
• nonsatiable adjective
• satiability noun
• satiableness noun
• satiably adverb
• unsatiability noun
• unsatiable adjective
• unsatiableness noun
• unsatiably adverb

Etymology

Origin of satiable

First recorded in 1560–70; sati(ate) + -able

Explanation

If you're satiable, you are capable of feeling full or satisfied. An easily satiable dinner guest might eat one serving of lasagna, pat his stomach, and say, "Ah, that was delicious." A person who is satiable can be sated or satisfied — for some reason, though, it's much more common to see the word insatiable, which has the opposite meaning. If you're insatiable, you can never be satisfied, no matter how much you have. Both words come from the verb satiate, "satisfy to to full," from the Latin root satis, "enough."

Example Sentences

Machines at New Jersey's Sterling Drug Inc. have just produced their 100 billionth Bayer aspirin tablet for the in satiable U.S. market.

From Time Magazine Archive

Yet the appetite for Citroen cars is so in satiable that the company last week stretched out the waiting time for delivery of some of its models from two to three months.

From Time Magazine Archive

In general, however, commodities which minister to easily satiable wants are ill-adapted for money.

From The Value of Money by Anderson, Benjamin M.

A tale like Kipling's The Elephant's Child would be ruined without those clinging epithets, such as "the wait-a-bit thorn-bush," "mere-smear nose," "slushy squshy mud-cap," "Bi-Colored-Python-Rock-Snake," and "satiable curtiosity."

From A Study of Fairy Tales by Kready, Laura F.

By the time she was able to be up and out even Mary Brooks, with her "satiable curiosity," had forgotten to ask why she went to New York.

From Betty Wales, Sophomore by Warde, Margaret