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inextinguishable en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in-bor. Middle English in- English in- English extinguish Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English extinguishable English inextinguishable From in- + extinguishable.

Meanings

  1. Incapable of being extinguished or ended, not extinguishable.
    • These achievements were made at a bloody cost and required courage and indomitable honesty, evidence of the inextinguishable will to survive and to be self-actualized in the face of unspeakable dangers. 1979 August 11, Lawrence Mass, “Psychiatry on Trial”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 4, page 8:
    • […] a creature of indomitable will, daemonic, the incarnation of inextinguishable hate. 1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “VI. Orestea. I: Agamemnon”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 167:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
most inextinguishable Degree=Sup lexicographic
more inextinguishable Degree=Cmp lexicographic
unextinguishable alternative lexicographic

Antonyms

extinguishable

Deriveds

inextinguishably · inextinguishableness

Synonyms

unquenchable

Translations (19)

hu elolthatatlan (incapable of being extinguished) · it inestinguibile (incapable of being extinguished) · hy անշեջ (incapable of being extinguished) · de unlöschbar (incapable of being extinguished) · hu olthatatlan (incapable of being extinguished) · fr inextinguible (incapable of being extinguished) · pt inapagável (incapable of being extinguished) · gl inapagábel (incapable of being extinguished) · ca inextingible (incapable of being extinguished) · grc ἄσβεστος (incapable of being extinguished) · bg неугасим (incapable of being extinguished) · gl inextinguíbel (incapable of being extinguished) · bg неутолим (incapable of being extinguished) · gl inextinguible (incapable of being extinguished) · ca inapagable (incapable of being extinguished) · es inextinguible (incapable of being extinguished) · pt inextinguível (incapable of being extinguished) · es inapagable (incapable of being extinguished) · gl inapagable (incapable of being extinguished)