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exhaustless

exhaustless

7.5
Having a supply or energy that never runs out
  • adjective
  • /ɪɡˈzɔstləs/
translation icon : inagotable
  • Her enthusiasm for the project seemed exhaustless, inspiring everyone around her.

Examples

  • The mercy of God is an ocean absolutely exhaustless.

    Academic text (2003)
  • The sun provides an exhaustless source of energy for our planet.

  • At Niagara Falls in 1852, he watched the water crashing down: "Oh, this pouring on, on, on, exhaustless, ceaseless, like the counsel itself of God....

    Academic text (2010)
  • When rising to speak in council, all eyes were turned upon him, and deep-toned, sonorous, and eloquent sentences rolled from his lips like the thunders of cataracts flowing from exhaustless fountains.

    Academic text (1998)
  • This art of nidification is one of the most wonderful contrivances that the wide field of Nature can show, and which, of itself, ought to be sufficient to compel mankind to the belief that they and every other part of creation are constantly under the protecting power of a superintending Being, whose benign dispensations seem as exhaustless as they are unlimited.

    Academic text (1997)
  • The library has an exhaustless supply of information on every subject imaginable.

Synonyms

limitless
vsexhaustless
41 4.0

Very large and without any end

focuses on never running out rather than being boundless in scale
inexhaustible
vsexhaustless
10 6.5

Too large for people to use up

is the same in meaning but uses slightly different phrasing
unquenchable
vsexhaustless
7 7.4

A strong want or need no one can satisfy

refers to never running out rather than being unable to be satisfied

Antonyms

56 4.1

A thing that has a limit in amount, size, or time

1 7.2

Able to be used until it is gone

How Endless

exhaustless
7.5
abundant
77 3.0
ample
104 3.7
limited
393 2.5
finite
56 4.1

Surface Forms

exhaustless positive

Morphology

exhaustless = exhaust (transparent) = exhaust + less

Meaning 'not able to be exhausted' is directly and productively derived from the verb 'exhaust' plus the productive adjective-forming suffix '-less'.

Etymology

Exhaustless comes from the word exhaust, which used to mean 'to draw out', like taking water from a well until it is empty, and the ending -less means 'without'. So, exhaustless literally means 'without being emptied', which is why we use it for things that never run out.