INEXHAUSTIBLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does inexhaustible mean? 

• INEXHAUSTIBLE (adjective)
  The adjective INEXHAUSTIBLE has 2 senses:

1. that cannot be entirely consumed or used up

2. incapable of being entirely consumed or used up

  Familiarity information: INEXHAUSTIBLE used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INEXHAUSTIBLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

That cannot be entirely consumed or used up

Synonyms:

inexhaustible; unlimited

Context example:

an inexhaustible supply of coal

Similar:

infinite (having no limits or boundaries in time or space or extent or magnitude)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Incapable of being entirely consumed or used up

Context example:

an inexhaustible supply of coal

Similar:

renewable (capable of being renewed; replaceable)

unfailing (always able to supply more)

Antonym:

exhaustible (capable of being used up)

 Context examples 

Here consequently was an inexhaustible subject of discourse.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

The difference of manners which he observed was to him an inexhaustible source of instruction and amusement.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Holmes, however, was always in training, for he had inexhaustible stores of nervous energy upon which to draw.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Their stringy muscles seemed founts of inexhaustible energy.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Little girl, a memory without blot or contamination must be an exquisite treasure—an inexhaustible source of pure refreshment: is it not?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

There, clinging to the stout halliards of the sheet, he gazed with amazement at the long lines of black waves, each with its curling ridge of foam, racing in endless succession from out the inexhaustible west. A huge sombre cloud, flecked with livid blotches, stretched over the whole seaward sky-line, with long ragged streamers whirled out in front of it.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the tawny leaves, and withered hedges, and from repeating to herself some few of the thousand poetical descriptions extant of autumn, that season of peculiar and inexhaustible influence on the mind of taste and tenderness, that season which had drawn from every poet, worthy of being read, some attempt at description, or some lines of feeling.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Much as they were attached to each other, they seemed to draw inexhaustible stores of affection from a very mine of love to bestow them upon me.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

That was it. I'd never understood before. It was full of money—that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals' song of it. ... High in a white palace the king's daughter, the golden girl. ...

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)