inexhaustive

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English

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Etymology

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From in- +‎ exhaustive.

Adjective

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inexhaustive (comparative more inexhaustive, superlative most inexhaustive)

  1. 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?