insatiable

Everyday

Always wanting more and never satisfied: an insatiable appetite; an insatiable curiosity. tree →

In the lessons

Used in stories and science (an insatiable predator) and about people who never stop wanting to know or have more. In Kipling's Just So Stories the Elephant's Child is «full of 'satiable curtiosity» — Kipling's playful way of saying insatiable curiosity: he asks so many questions that he goes to the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River to find out what the Crocodile has for dinner.

Examples

• The Elephant's Child had an insatiable curiosity. tree →
• Caterpillars have an insatiable appetite. tree →
• She has an insatiable love of books. tree →
• The dragon's hunger for gold was insatiable. tree →
• Toad had an insatiable craze for new things. tree →
• Babies seem to have an insatiable need for milk. tree →
• His thirst for knowledge was insatiable. tree →
• Wherever I go, I am pursued by a longing that is insatiable--that I cannot explain to myself, and that tears my very heart. tree →

Note

Say «in-SAY-sha-bul». It means «cannot be satisfied» (in- = not, sati- = enough). Kipling's «'satiable curtiosity» is a joke spelling, not standard English.