inconsumable

American  

[in-kuhn-soo-muh-buhl] / ˌɪn kənˈsu mə bəl /

adjective

1. not consumable; incapable of being consumed.

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inconsumable British  

/ ˌɪnkənˈsjuːməbəl /

adjective

1. incapable of being consumed or used up

2. economics providing an economic service without being consumed, as currency

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Other Word Forms

• inconsumably adverb

Etymology

Origin of inconsumable

First recorded in 1640–50; in- ³ + consumable

Example Sentences

"Like two meteors of expanding flame, Those spheres instinct with it become the same, Touch, mingle, are transfigured; ever still Burning, yet ever inconsumable; In one another's substance finding food."

From Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher by Jones, Henry, Sir

For did she not know that God gives the heart of a poet to be as fuel to his genius, for ever consumed and inconsumable?

From The Divine Fire by Sinclair, May

Touch, mingle, are transfigured; ever still Burning, yet ever inconsumable.

From The Principles of English Versification by Baum, Paull Franklin

Men resist the conclusion in the morning, but adopt it as the evening wears on, that temper prevails over everything of time, place, and condition, and is inconsumable in the flames of religion.

From Essays — Second Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

With us there is left the soul, which is expressly said to be inconsumable.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 by Various