inexhaustible
/ɪnɪɡˈzɔːstɪbl̩/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.57 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Impossible to exhaust; unlimited.
Example Sentences
- "Henriette and Marie de Mancini, his former inexhaustible themes, seemed to have entirely escaped his memory."
- "[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."
- ". . . Tad Allagash, a stripling adman and Manhattan party animal with inexhaustible supplies of Bolivian Marching Powder (coy for cocaine)."
Etymology
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 *auziō Latin hauriō Latin exhauriō Latin exhaustusder. English exhaust Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ibilis Old French -ibleder. Middle English -ible English -ible English exhaustible English inexhaustible From in- + exhaustible.