Meanings
- not comparableImpossible to exhaust; unlimited.
Henriette and Marie de Mancini, his former inexhaustible themes, seemed to have entirely escaped his memory.
1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, pages 86–872 more examples
[I]t would not be very much less absurd for someone to write about New York City after having spent only a few years or a few decades in this metropolis of inexhaustible adventure, of terrifying emotional fecundity, of uncapturable character.
1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 52. . . Tad Allagash, a stripling adman and Manhattan party animal with inexhaustible supplies of Bolivian Marching Powder (coy for cocaine).
1987 October 19, R. Z. Sheppard, “Yuppie Lit: Publicize or Perish”, in TIME, archived from the original on 08 Apr 2008Antonyms: exhaustible
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveImpossible to exhaust; unlimited.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectiveincapable of being entirely consumed or used up
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Italic*n̥-
- Latinin-
- Middle Englishin-
- Englishin-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁éǵʰ
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁éǵʰs
- Proto-Italic*eks
- Latinex
- Latinex-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂ews-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂ews-ye-ti
- Proto-Italic*auziō
- Latinhauriō
- Latinexhauriō
- Latinexhaustus
- Englishexhaust
- Englishexhaustible
- Englishinexhaustible
From in- + exhaustible.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Ancient Greek ἀκαταπόνητος
- ἀκαταπόνητος (akatapónētos)impossible to exhaust
Bulgarian неизчерпаем, неизтощим
- неизчерпаем (neizčerpaem)impossible to exhaust
- неизтощим (neiztoštim)impossible to exhaust
Catalan inesgotable, inexhaurible
- inesgotableimpossible to exhaust
- inexhauribleimpossible to exhaust
Czech nevyčerpatelný
- nevyčerpatelnýimpossible to exhaust
Danish uudtømmelig
- uudtømmeligimpossible to exhaust
Dutch onuitputtelijk
- onuitputtelijkimpossible to exhaust
Finnish ehtymätön
- ehtymätönimpossible to exhaust
French inépuisable
- inépuisableimpossible to exhaust
German unerschöpflich
- unerschöpflichimpossible to exhaust
Greek ανεξάντλητος
- ανεξάντλητος (anexántlitos)impossible to exhaust
Hungarian kimeríthetetlen, kifogyhatatlan
- kimeríthetetlenimpossible to exhaust
- kifogyhatatlanimpossible to exhaust
Irish do-ídithe
- do-íditheimpossible to exhaust
Italian inesauribile
- inesauribileimpossible to exhaust
Māori manawawhenua
- manawawhenuaimpossible to exhaust
Polish niewyczerpany
- niewyczerpanyimpossible to exhaust
Russian неисчерпа́емый, неиссяка́емый
- неисчерпа́емый (neisčerpájemyj)impossible to exhaust
- неиссяка́емый (neissjakájemyj)impossible to exhaust
- неистощи́мый (neistoščímyj)impossible to exhaust
Spanish inagotable, inexhaurible
- inagotableimpossible to exhaust
- inexhauribleimpossible to exhaust
Swedish outtömlig
- outtömligimpossible to exhaust
Ukrainian невиче́рпний
- невиче́рпний (nevyčérpnyj)impossible to exhaust
Welsh dihysbydd
- dihysbyddimpossible to exhaust
Cite this entry
inexhaustible. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/inexhaustible
“inexhaustible.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/inexhaustible. Accessed November 5, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “inexhaustible,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/inexhaustible.
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