inextinguible
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Middle French inextinguible and its source, Latin inextinguibilis.
AdjectiveEdit
inextinguible (comparative more inextinguible, superlative most inextinguible)
- (obsolete) Inextinguishable. [15th–17th c.]
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970, partition II, section 2, member 4:
- Cornelius Drible [hath made] a perpetual motion, inextinguible lights, linum non ardens, with many such feats […]
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Late Latin inextinguibilis.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
inextinguible (plural inextinguibles)
- inextinguishable
- (figuratively) unquenchable; uncontrollable, unstoppable
- une soif inextinguible ― an unquenchable thirst
- un rire inextinguible ― an inextinguishable laugh
Further readingEdit
- “inextinguible”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
GalicianEdit
Alternative formsEdit
AdjectiveEdit
inextinguible m or f (plural inextinguibles)
SynonymsEdit
AntonymsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “inextinguible” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
SpanishEdit
AdjectiveEdit
inextinguible (plural inextinguibles)
- inextinguishable
- Synonym: inapagable
- Antonyms: apagable, extinguible
Further readingEdit
- “inextinguible”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014