inconsumable
Americanadjective
adjective
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incapable of being consumed or used up
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economics providing an economic service without being consumed, as currency
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of inconsumable
First recorded in 1640–50; in- 3 + consumable
Example Sentences
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"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
In such a society, one-tenth of the product being inconsumable, one-tenth of the labor goes unpaid—production costs more than it is worth.
From What is Property? by Proudhon, P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph)
These two substances are really inconsumable, and continue to exist, after they meet in a combined form, as carbonic acid gas.
From Natural Law in the Spiritual World by Drummond, Henry
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
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