Meanings
comparative more inextinguishable · superlative most inextinguishable · alternative unextinguishable
- Incapable of being extinguished or ended, not extinguishable.
[…] a creature of indomitable will, daemonic, the incarnation of inextinguishable hate.
1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “VI. Orestea. I: Agamemnon”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 1671 more example
These achievements were made at a bloody cost and required courage and indomitable honesty, evidence of the inextinguishable will to survive and to be self-actualized in the face of unspeakable dangers.
1979 August 11, Lawrence Mass, “Psychiatry on Trial”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 4, page 8Synonyms: unquenchable
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveIncapable of being extinguished or ended, not extinguishable.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivedifficult or impossible to extinguish
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-
- Englishextinguish
- Englishextinguishable
- Englishinextinguishable
From in- + extinguishable.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Ancient Greek ἄσβεστος
- ἄσβεστος (ásbestos)incapable of being extinguished
Bulgarian неугасим, неутолим
- неугасим (neugasim)incapable of being extinguished
- неутолим (neutolim)incapable of being extinguished
Catalan inextingible, inapagable
- inextingibleincapable of being extinguished
- inapagableincapable of being extinguished
French inextinguible
- inextinguibleincapable of being extinguished
German unlöschbar
- unlöschbarincapable of being extinguished
Hungarian olthatatlan, elolthatatlan
- olthatatlanincapable of being extinguished
- elolthatatlanincapable of being extinguished
Italian inestinguibile
- inestinguibileincapable of being extinguished
Portuguese inextinguível, inapagável
- inextinguívelincapable of being extinguished
- inapagávelincapable of being extinguished
Spanish inextinguible, inapagable
- inextinguibleincapable of being extinguished
- inapagableincapable of being extinguished
Cite this entry
inextinguishable. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/inextinguishable
“inextinguishable.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/inextinguishable. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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