inexhaustible
English
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From in- + exhaustible.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ɪnɪɡˈzɔːstɪbl̩/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Hyphenation: in‧ex‧haus‧ti‧ble
Adjective
[edit]inexhaustible (not comparable)
- Impossible to exhaust; unlimited.
- Antonym: exhaustible
- 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, pages 86–87:
- Henriette and Marie de Mancini, his former inexhaustible themes, seemed to have entirely escaped his memory.
- 1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 52:
- [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.
Derived terms
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[edit]impossible to exhaust
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