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unexhaustible

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Etymology

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From un- +‎ exhaustible.

Adjective

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unexhaustible (comparative more unexhaustible, superlative most unexhaustible)

  1. Not exhaustible; endless; inexhaustible.
    • 1753, Theophilus Cibber, The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland[1]:
      He was a perfect matter of the Greek, Latin and French languages; and, which is seldom known to happen, had at once such a prodigious memory, and unexhaustible fund of wit, as would have singly been admired, and much more united.
    • 1931, Ion L. Idriess, Lasseter's Last Ride, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 130:
      He began to tell them of the white man's food, of its variety and unexhaustible quantity.