fatigable
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- fatigability noun
- fatigableness noun
- nonfatigable adjective
- unfatigable adjective
Etymology
Origin of fatigable
1600–10; < Latin fatīgābilis, equivalent to fatīgā ( re ) to tire + -bilis -ble
Example Sentences
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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
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.
From Benign Stupors A Study of a New Manic-Depressive Reaction Type by MacCurdy, John T. (John Thompson)
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 The Stones of Venice, Volume III (of 3) by Ruskin, John
Whether the muscles are massive or sparse, atrophied or hypertrophied, soft or hard, easily fatigable or not, bespeak conditions in the glandular chain.
From The Glands Regulating Personality by Berman, Louis, M.D.
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