inexhaustive
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From in- + exhaustive.
Adjective[edit]
inexhaustive (comparative more inexhaustive, superlative most inexhaustive)
- Synonym of inexhaustible
- 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:
- Can feeble words thy vivid colours paint, / Or ſhow the ſweets which inexhauſtive flow?