Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Impossible to exhaust; inexhaustible.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Incapable of being exhausted; that cannot be wholly expended, consumed, or emptied; inexhaustible: as, an exhaustless fund or store.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not be exhausted; inexhaustible.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Unable to be
exhausted ; having anendless supply. - adjective Of an
automobile or similarmachine , not producingexhaust ;nonpolluting .
Etymologies
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Examples
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And though hand-picking may have made a clearance for the time, yet the ranks were always filled and refilled, in exhaustless measure.
Gardening by Myself 1872
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Kate Chopin describes the landscape of the area where the story takes place in Louisiana and talks about the "ground of the plantation-rich in its exhaustless powers of reproduction" (Russell, David, A Vision of Reunion page 9, Kate Chopin, 1890).
The More things change, The more they remain the same [Oligarchs = Facism] 2009
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The next morning, Cecilia took care to fill up her time more advantageously, than in wandering about the house in search of a companion she now expected not to find: she got together her books, arranged them to her fancy, and secured to herself for the future occupation of her leisure hours, the exhaustless fund of entertainment which reading, that richest, highest, and noblest source of intellectual enjoyment, perpetually affords.
Cecilia 2008
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And more than hope: an exhaustless store of certainty, vision, belief-which came to me first in the time of my youthhood, the Depression '30s.
The '30S 2008
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With the exhaustless reservoir of the Government of the United States furnishing easy money, the sales increase, the businesses enlarge, more new enterprises are started, the spirit of optimism pervades the community.
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And oh as to me it will be exhaustless, may but its sweet dispenser experience some share of the happiness she bestows, and then what, save her own purity, will be so perfect, so unsullied, as the felicity of her!
Cecilia 2008
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With the exhaustless reservoir of the Government of the United States furnishing easy money, the sales increase, the businesses enlarge, more new enterprises are started, the spirit of optimism pervades the community.
Is the Medicine Worse Than the Illness? James Grant 2008
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To introduce an element of uncertainty into pleasure is to prolong illusion, and render lasting those selfish satisfactions which all creatures hold, and should shroud a woman in expectancy, crown her sovereign, and invest her with an exhaustless power, a redundancy of life, that makes everything blossom around her.
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From spoils of nations, and the exhaustless East
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Oh deep, exhaustless, mighty well of love, in which so much was sunk!
Dombey and Son 2007
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