exhaustless

[ ig-zawst-lis ]

adjective

1. inexhaustible.

Other Words From

• ex·haustless·ly adverb
• ex·haustless·ness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of exhaustless¹

First recorded in 1705–15; exhaust + -less

Example Sentences

She agrees with naturalist Pliny, who wrote two millennia ago that insects display nature’s “exhaustless ingenuity”.

From Nature

Perhaps, following Professor Burnet’s able guidance through the complexities of definitions, the term Boundless best expresses the “one eternal, indestructible substance out of which everything arises, and into which everything once more returns”; in other words, the exhaustless stock of matter from which the waste of existence is being continually made good.

From Project Gutenberg

She looks a sea Cybele, fresh from ocean,10 Rising with her tiara of proud towers At airy distance, with majestic motion, A ruler of the waters and their powers: And such she was;—her daughters had their dowers14 From spoils of nations, and the exhaustless East Poured in her lap all gems in sparkling showers.

From Project Gutenberg

Though heretics naturally grew scarcer with the unintermitting pursuit of so many years, there was still the exhaustless catalogue of the dead, whose exhumation furnished an impressive spectacle for the mob, while their confiscations were welcome to the pious princes, and contributed largely to the change of ownership of land which was a political consummation so desirable.

From Project Gutenberg

The Church suddenly found that it could count upon an unexpected reserve of enthusiasm, boundless and exhaustless, despising danger and reckless of consequences, which in the end could hardly fail to triumph.

From Project Gutenberg