unexhaustible

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adjective

Not exhaustible; endless; inexhaustible.

Scrabble 25

Meanings

adjectiveunexhaustible (comparative more unexhaustible, superlative most unexhaustible)

comparative more unexhaustible · superlative most unexhaustible

  1. Not exhaustible; endless; inexhaustible.

    He began to tell them of the white man's food, of its variety and unexhaustible quantity.

    1931, Ion L. Idriess, Lasseter's Last Ride, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 130
    1 more example

    He was a perfect matter of the Greek, Latin and French languages; and, which is seldom known to happen, had at once such a prodigious memory, and unexhaustible fund of wit, as would have singly been admired, and much more united.

    1753, Theophilus Cibber, The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*né
  2. Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
  3. Proto-Germanic*un-
  4. Proto-West Germanic*un-
  5. Old Englishun-
  6. Middle Englishun-
  7. Englishun-
  8. Proto-Indo-European*h₁éǵʰ
  9. Proto-Indo-European*h₁éǵʰs
  10. Proto-Italic*eks
  11. Latinex
  12. Latinex-
  13. Proto-Indo-European*h₂ews-
  14. Proto-Indo-European*h₂ews-ye-ti
  15. Proto-Italic*auziō
  16. Latinhauriō
  17. Latinexhauriō
  18. Latinexhaustus
  19. Englishexhaust
  20. Englishexhaustible
  21. Englishunexhaustible

From un- + exhaustible.

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APA

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Chicago

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