Inexhaustible Meaning
/ɪnɪɡˈzɔːstɪbl̩/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjImpossible to exhaust; unlimited.
Sentence Examples
Your supply of anecdotes is inexhaustible.
Books are inexhaustible sources of knowledge.
The man is an inexhaustible source of energy.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The sun provides an ____ supply of clean energy that will never run out.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The young children seemed to have an ____ supply of energy, playing all day without resting.
Word Origin & History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in-bor. Middle English in- English in- Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Italic *eks Latin ex Latin ex- Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews- Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews-ye-tider. Proto-Italic *auzjō Latin hauriō Latin exhauriō Latin exhaustusder. English exhaust Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ibilis Old French -ibleder. Middle English -ible English -ible English exhaustible English inexhaustible From in- + exhaustible.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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 86–87:
"[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:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The sun provides an ____ supply of clean energy that will never run out.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The young children seemed to have an ____ supply of energy, playing all day without resting.