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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
inexhaustible
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an endless/inexhaustible supply (=one that does not end, or seems not to end)
▪ He has an endless supply of jokes.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
supply
▪ He was a man of exceptional persistence, who confronted his many setbacks with an apparently inexhaustible supply of energy and resourcefulness.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Cold fusion would be a cheap and virtually inexhaustible energy source.
▪ Scientists are working to create a fuel that would be cheap, clean, and inexhaustible.
▪ The enemy seemed to have an inexhaustible supply of ammunition.
▪ the public's inexhaustible fascination with crime
▪ What is the source of Armstrong's seemingly inexhaustible wealth?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inexhaustible

Inexhaustible \In`ex*haust"i*ble\, a. Incapable of being exhausted, emptied, or used up; unfailing; not to be wasted or spent; as, inexhaustible stores of provisions; an inexhaustible stock of elegant words.
--Dryden.

An inexhaustible store of anecdotes.
--Macaulay. -- In`ex*haust"i*ble*ness, n. -- In`ex*haust"i*bly, adv.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
inexhaustible

c.1600, from in- (1) "not, opposite of" + exhaustible (see exhaust). Related: Inexhaustibly.

Wiktionary
inexhaustible

a. Impossible to exhaust; unlimited.

WordNet
inexhaustible
  1. adj. that cannot be entirely consumed or used up; "an inexhaustible supply of coal" [syn: unlimited]

  2. incapable of being entirely consumed or used up; "an inexhaustible supply of coal" [ant: exhaustible]

Usage examples of "inexhaustible".

All the beach towns, plus Torrance, Hawthorne, and greater Walteria, were in on some grandiose pilot project bankrolled with inexhaustible taxpayer millions, appropriate chunks of which were finding their way to antidrug entities up and down every level of governance.

At the time of which we are writing the Court Capellmeister at Vienna was George Reutter, an inexhaustible composer of church music, whose works, now completely forgotten, once had a great vogue in all the choirs of the Imperial States.

In the secret sittings of the Committee Madier de Montjau, that firm and generous heart, De Flotte, brave and thoughtful, a fighting philosopher of the Devolution, Carnot, accurate, cold, tranquil, immovable, Jules Favre, eloquent, courageous, admirable through his simplicity and his strength, inexhaustible in resources as in sarcasms, doubled, by combining them, the diverse powers of their minds.

Love is a great poet, its resources are inexhaustible, but if the end it has in view is not obtained, it feels weary and remains silent.

Except for my inheritance of course, my inexhaustible, inexpungeable inheritance.

But the inexhaustible funds of the Middletown Trust Company proved well that this newer institution was capable of serving the needs of the district.

And I had a practically inexhaustible supply of Reality Pills for Halloween, saturnalia, and bar mitzvahs.

This constant broadening of technical and emotional contrast must have taken Ressler years to train for: each variation is so arranged to throw off the spell of the previous, and before the ear has time enough to savor any crystallization of mood, a reaction at once pitches the listener into new tempi, meters, and melodic figures probing radically opposing kernels of feeling, pulling open the full complexity of the piece, the inexhaustible variety extracted from the modest four-by-four-by-four sarabande.

I no longer wonder at the English being such excellent caricaturists, they have such an inexhaustible number and variety of subjects to study from.

Whether as a result of this treatment, or from the inescapable realization that in ostracizing the Lanyons she distressed no one but Charlotte, she appeared next morning with so firm a smile, and so inexhaustible a flow of amiable commonplaces, that she might have been supposed to have suffered a complete loss of memory.

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 small thread of mist arose and she paced slowly about the bench, the bowl outheld and the mist, seemingly inexhaustible, weaving a pattern in the air back and forth across Undia.

He remarked that if dreaming is overemphasized, it becomes what it was for the old sorcerers: a source of inexhaustible indulging.

Having passed the watches of the night in uneasy and inexhaustible reflections, he sprung from his couch as soon as the first dawn of day proclaimed the approaching sun, and took a hasty leave of the hospitable hermit.

Seabats of several species, from the tiny watershears skimming the wavetops to the three-meter-spanning alcatrazi gliding high above, patrolled and plunged to pillage the inexhaustible shoals that thronged the waters below.