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EXHAUSTIBLE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does exhaustible mean?
• EXHAUSTIBLE (adjective)
The adjective EXHAUSTIBLE has 2 senses:
1. capable of being used up
2. capable of being used up; capable of being exhausted
Familiarity information: EXHAUSTIBLE used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Capable of being used up
Similar:
depletable (capable of being depleted)
Antonym:
inexhaustible (incapable of being entirely consumed or used up)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Capable of being used up; capable of being exhausted
Context example:
our exhaustible reserves of fossil fuel
Similar:
finite (bounded or limited in magnitude or spatial or temporal extent)
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