inexhaustible

English

Etymology

From in- +‎ exhaustible.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnɪɡˈzɔːstɪbl̩/
• Hyphenation: in‧ex‧haus‧ti‧ble

Adjective

inexhaustible (not comparable)

1. 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

impossible to exhaust

• Bulgarian: неизчерпаем (bg) (neizčerpaem), неизтощим (bg) (neiztoštim)
• Catalan: inesgotable, inexhaurible
• 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)
• Irish: do-ídithe
• 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)
• Welsh: dihysbydd (cy)