Dictionary

exhaustless en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Italic *eks Latin ex Latin ex- Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews- Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews-ye-tider. Proto-Italic *auziō Latin hauriō Latin exhauriō Latin exhaustusder. English exhaust Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English exhaustless From exhaust + -less.

Meanings

1. Unable to be exhausted; having an endless supply; inexhaustible.
   • The exhaustless conjecturings of that evening's full conversation, made such of the small party, as had hitherto been strangers, well acquainted with each other's turn of mind; […] 1830, Anna Maria Porter, chapter X, in The Barony. […], volume III, London: […] [A[ndrew] & R[obert] Spottiswoode] for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, […], →OCLC, page 460:
   • Nectar ran / In courteous fountains to all cups outreach'd; / And plunder'd vines, teeming exhaustless, pleach'd / New growth about each shell and pendent lyre; [...] 1818, John Keats, “Book III”, in Endymion: A Poetic Romance, London: […] T[homas] Miller, […] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC, page 149, lines 932–935:
2. (of an automobile or similar machine) Not producing exhaust.
   • After he had finished he drove it over to Newton and started parading back and forth in the exhaustless car in front of the Stanley plant. Not a single whisp of steam could be seen, exhausting out any exhaust pipe. In fact he had no exhaust pipe ... 1979, Cars and Parts, volume 22, page 13:
   • Near-synonym: nonpolluting
   • These obstacles preclude near-future solutions for exhaustless vehicles, or those having an exhaust with greatly reduced toxicity. 1969, Machine Design, volume 41, page 60:
   • Trying to figure out the technology behind its operation—he had seen exhaustless vehicles in another Outline, apparently run on broadcast power ... 2014, Matthew Johnson, Irregular Verbs, ChiZine, →ISBN:
   • We need an exhaustless automobile, a noiseless and versatile airplane. We need new methods of reducing and coping with wastes—radioactive, sewage, gaseous, and liquid. 1971, John R. Wish, Marketing and social issues: an action reader, John Wiley & Sons:
   • The car is at the same time the greatest producer of noise and the greatest polluter, and thus responsible for the rapidly accelerating debasement of the human environment. The long overdue noiseless and exhaustless automobile would ... 1973, Eckhard Schulze-Fielitz, Stadtsysteme, →ISBN:

Forms

Antonyms

exhaustible

Coordinates

unexhausted

Deriveds

exhaustlessly · exhaustlessness

Hypernyms

zero-emission

Relateds

tailpipe · exhaust pipe · exhaust system · smokestack

Synonyms

nonpolluting

Translations (3)

fi ehtymätön (unable to be exhausted) · fi päästötön (nonpolluting) · bg неизчерпаем (unable to be exhausted)