Etymology
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From in- + exhaustible.
Pronunciation
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- IPA(key): /ɪnɪɡˈzɔːstɪbl̩/
- Hyphenation: in‧ex‧haus‧ti‧ble
Adjective
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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.
Translations
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impossible to exhaust
- Bulgarian: неизчерпаем (bg) (neizčerpaem), неизтощим (bg) (neiztoštim)
- Catalan: inesgotable
- Czech: nevyčerpatelný (cs)
- Danish: uudtømmelig
- Dutch: onuitputtelijk (nl)
- French: inépuisable (fr)
- Galician: inesgotable (gl), inesgotábel (gl)
- German: unerschöpflich (de)
- Greek: ανεξάντλητος (el) (anexántlitos)
- Ancient: ἀκαταπόνητος (akatapónētos)
- Hungarian: kimeríthetetlen (hu), kifogyhatatlan (hu)
- Italian: inesauribile (it)
- Macedonian: неи́сцрпен (neíscrpen), неи́сцрплив (neíscrpliv), непре́сушен (neprésušen)
- Manx: neufolmagh, neuhraieagh, neuleodagh, neuyeeigagh
- Maori: manawawhenua (of a spring or underground mineral resource)
- Polish: niewyczerpany
- Russian: неисчерпа́емый (ru) (neisčerpájemyj), неиссяка́емый (ru) (neissjakájemyj), неистощи́мый (ru) (neistoščímyj)
- Spanish: inagotable (es)
- Swedish: outtömlig (sv)
- Ukrainian: невиче́рпний (nevyčérpnyj) (in unlimited supply)
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