inexhaustive en · ADJ
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 exhaustus Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Medieval Latin exhaustīvusbor. English exhaustive English inexhaustive From in- + exhaustive.
Meanings
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Synonym of inexhaustible.
Can feeble words thy vivid colours paint, / Or ſhow the ſweets which inexhauſtive flow?
a. 1749, James Thomson, “To Dr. Delacour, in Ireland; on His Prospect of Poetry”, in The Poetical Works of James Thomson, […], Edinburgh: […] Mundell and Son, […], published 1794, →OCLC; republished in Robert Anderson, editor, The Works of the British Poets. […], volume IX, London: […] [Mundell and Son] for John & Arthur Arch; and for Bell & Bradfute, and J. Mundell & Co. […], 1795, →OCLC, page 273, column 2:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most inexhaustive | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more inexhaustive | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |