inexhaustible en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ɪnɪɡˈzɔːstɪbl̩/
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in-bor. Middle English in- English in- 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 *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ibilis Old French -ibleder. Middle English -ible English -ible English exhaustible English inexhaustible From in- + exhaustible.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Impossible to exhaust; unlimited.
. . . Tad Allagash, a stripling adman and Manhattan party animal with inexhaustible supplies of Bolivian Marching Powder (coy for cocaine).
1987 October 19, R. Z. Sheppard, “Yuppie Lit: Publicize or Perish”, in TIME, archived from the original on 08 Apr 2008:[I]t would not be very much less absurd for someone to write about New York City after having spent only a few years or a few decades in this metropolis of inexhaustible adventure, of terrifying emotional fecundity, of uncapturable character.
1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 52:Henriette and Marie de Mancini, his former inexhaustible themes, seemed to have entirely escaped his memory.
1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, pages 86–87:
Antonyms
Deriveds
inexhaustibly · inexhaustibleness
Translations (36)
mk неи́сцрпен (impossible to exhaust) · gv neufolmagh (impossible to exhaust) · mk неи́сцрплив (impossible to exhaust) · ca inexhaurible (impossible to exhaust) · fr inépuisable (impossible to exhaust) · mi manawawhenua (impossible to exhaust) · mk непре́сушен (impossible to exhaust) · pl niewyczerpany (impossible to exhaust) · cy dihysbydd (impossible to exhaust) · gv neuyeeigagh (impossible to exhaust) · gl inesgotable (impossible to exhaust) · az tükənməz (impossible to exhaust) · hu kimeríthetetlen (impossible to exhaust) · hu kifogyhatatlan (impossible to exhaust) · gl inesgotábel (impossible to exhaust) · el ανεξάντλητος (impossible to exhaust) · uk невиче́рпний (impossible to exhaust) · ca inesgotable (impossible to exhaust) · bg неизчерпаем (impossible to exhaust) · da uudtømmelig (impossible to exhaust) · es inagotable (impossible to exhaust) · cs nevyčerpatelný (impossible to exhaust) · ru неисчерпа́емый (impossible to exhaust) · sv outtömlig (impossible to exhaust) · es inexhaurible (impossible to exhaust) · de unerschöpflich (impossible to exhaust) · fi ehtymätön (impossible to exhaust) · bg неизтощим (impossible to exhaust) · gv neuleodagh (impossible to exhaust) · ru неиссяка́емый (impossible to exhaust) · it inesauribile (impossible to exhaust) · ru неистощи́мый (impossible to exhaust) · gv neuhraieagh (impossible to exhaust) · ga do-ídithe (impossible to exhaust) · nl onuitputtelijk (impossible to exhaust) · grc ἀκαταπόνητος (impossible to exhaust)