Meanings
adjectiveinexhaustive (comparative more inexhaustive, superlative most inexhaustive)
comparative more inexhaustive · superlative most inexhaustive
- Synonym of inexhaustible.
Can feeble words thy vivid colours paint, / Or ſhow the ſweets which inexhauſtive flow?
a. 1749, James Thomson, “To Dr. Delacour, in Ireland; on His Prospect of Poetry”, in The Poetical Works of James Thomson, […], Edinburgh: […] Mundell and Son, […], published 1794, →OCLC; republished in Robert Anderson, editor, The Works of the British Poets. […], volume IX, London: […] [Mundell and Son] for John & Arthur Arch; and for Bell & Bradfute, and J. Mundell & Co. […], 1795, →OCLC, page 273, column 2Synonyms: inexhaustible
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveSynonym of inexhaustible.
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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
- Medieval Latinexhaustīvus
- Englishexhaustive
- Englishinexhaustive
From in- + exhaustive.
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Chicago
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