inexhaustible

[ in-ig-zaws-tuh-buhl ]

adjective

1. not exhaustible; incapable of being depleted:

   an inexhaustible supply.

2. untiring; tireless:

   an inexhaustible runner.

inexhaustible

/ ˌɪnɪɡˈzɔːstəbəl /

adjective

1. incapable of being used up; endless

   inexhaustible patience

2. incapable or apparently incapable of becoming tired; tireless

Derived Forms

• ˌinexˌhaustiˈbility, noun
• ˌinexˈhaustibly, adverb

Other Words From

• inex·hausti·bili·ty inex·hausti·ble·ness noun
• inex·hausti·bly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of inexhaustible¹

1595–1605; < Latin inexhaust ( us ) not exhausted ( in- ³, exhaust ) + -ible

Example Sentences

Exuberant and inexhaustible, he finds time to take in some pleasures of the city.

From Washington Blade

As with Nabokov’s language, there is enormous pleasure to be had in the physical stuff of the work, its almost inexhaustible beauty.

From Washington Post

The seemingly inexhaustible resource of time had finally run out.

From Time

The huge amount of money washing around in the trade is a corrupting force that attracts a seemingly inexhaustible stream of players, no matter how many people police lock up.

From Washington Post

I was, in fact, one of the lucky recipients of the inexhaustible generosity documented in the film.

From The Daily Beast

There is not an inexhaustible supply of experienced pilots to operate these fleets.

From The Daily Beast

The Complete Works By Michel de Montaigne This is the one inexhaustible book anyone interested in the form must have.

From The Daily Beast

Her brashness, inventiveness, and inexhaustible energy carried her the rest of the way.

From The Daily Beast

What figurations, what formulas, could describe the inexhaustible kinesis of those years?

From The Daily Beast

One day, when Aristide was discoursing on the inexhaustible subject of woman, I pulled him up.

From Project Gutenberg

His expletives were varied, vivid and inexhaustible, and the turbid stream was easily set flowing.

From Project Gutenberg

Bobby was unfurling some sort of a folded 185 paper which she had drawn from that inexhaustible pocket of hers.

From Project Gutenberg

Every time I pass through a grove in Brazil, I see new flowers and plants, and a richness of vegetation that seems inexhaustible.

From Project Gutenberg

The land is ours—there it lies with inexhaustible resources; let us go and possess it.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• bountiful
• endless
• infinite
• limitless
• never-ending