inextinguishable

English

Alternative forms

• unextinguishable (obsolete)

Etymology

From in- +‎ extinguishable.

Adjective

inextinguishable (comparative more inextinguishable, superlative most inextinguishable)

1. Incapable of being extinguished, not extinguishable.
   • 1979 August 11, Lawrence Mass, “Psychiatry on Trial”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 4, page 8:

     These achievements were made at a bloody cost and required courage and indomitable honesty, evidence of the inextinguishable will to survive and to be self-actualized in the face of unspeakable dangers.

Synonyms

• unquenchable

Antonyms

• extinguishable

Translations

incapable of being extinguished

• Armenian: անշեջ (hy) (anšeǰ)
• Bulgarian: неугасим (bg) (neugasim), неутолим (bg) (neutolim)
• Catalan: inextingible, inapagable
• French: inextinguible (fr)
• Galician: inapagable (gl), inapagábel (gl), inextinguible (gl), inextinguíbel (gl)
• German: unlöschbar (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἄσβεστος (ásbestos)

• Hungarian: olthatatlan (hu), elolthatatlan (hu)
• Italian: inestinguibile (it)
• Portuguese: inextinguível (pt), inapagável
• Spanish: inextinguible (es), inapagable (es)