fatigable

[ fat-i-guh-buhl ]

adjective

1. susceptible to fatigue.

Other Words From

• fati·ga·ble·ness fati·ga·bili·ty noun
• non·fati·ga·ble adjective
• un·fati·ga·ble adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of fatigable¹

1600–10; < Latin fatīgābilis, equivalent to fatīgā ( re ) to tire + -bilis -ble

Example Sentences

Cloistered in his Harvard office, he was busy turning out more Lost Positives: licit, iterate, fulgent, prentice, placable, delible, souciant, effable, vertently, fangled, sponsible, pression, fatigable.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is evident that the idea of any kind of play can only be associated with the idea of an imperfect, childish, and fatigable nature.

From Project Gutenberg

Two years later, however, she took up Christian Science and showed objectively some improvement in her health, although according to her later accounts she continued to feel somewhat nervous and fatigable.

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Then he tends to be dwarfed, fatigable, adipose.

From Project Gutenberg

Whether the muscles are massive or sparse, atrophied or hypertrophied, soft or hard, easily fatigable or not, bespeak conditions in the glandular chain.

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