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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Thus, so much of every product as is rendered by excessive abundance inconsumable, becomes useless, valueless, unexchangeable,—consequently, unfit to be given in payment for any thing whatever, and is no longer a product.
From What is Property? by Proudhon, P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph)
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)
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
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
The inconsumable Fidibus is a new invention with which our English friend, Mr. Traveller, was struck in the lodging of Freisleben, and in his notes thereon very graphically described.
From The Student-Life of Germany by Howitt, William
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