exhaustless

American  

[ig-zawst-lis] / ɪgˈzɔst lɪs /

adjective

1. inexhaustible.

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Other Word Forms

• exhaustlessly adverb
• exhaustlessness noun

Etymology

Origin of exhaustless

First recorded in 1705–15; exhaust + -less

Example Sentences

She agrees with naturalist Pliny, who wrote two millennia ago that insects display nature’s “exhaustless ingenuity”.

From Nature

Perhaps, following Professor Burnet’s able guidance through the complexities of definitions, the term Boundless best expresses the “one eternal, indestructible substance out of which everything arises, and into which everything once more returns”; in other words, the exhaustless stock of matter from which the waste of existence is being continually made good.

From Project Gutenberg

She looks a sea Cybele, fresh from ocean,10 Rising with her tiara of proud towers At airy distance, with majestic motion, A ruler of the waters and their powers: And such she was;—her daughters had their dowers14 From spoils of nations, and the exhaustless East Poured in her lap all gems in sparkling showers.

From Project Gutenberg

The Church suddenly found that it could count upon an unexpected reserve of enthusiasm, boundless and exhaustless, despising danger and reckless of consequences, which in the end could hardly fail to triumph.

From Project Gutenberg

In a few years her capital was largely invested in manufactures, and could the tariff have been made a permanent policy, all her crystal streams and dashing torrents hurrying from the mountains to the sea, would have been mines of almost exhaustless wealth.

From Project Gutenberg