The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inextinguishable \In`ex*tin"guish*a*ble\, a.
Not capable of being extinguished; extinguishable;
unquenchable; as, inextinguishable flame, light, thirst,
desire, feuds. ``Inextinguishable rage.''
--Milton.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1500, from in- (2) "not" + extinguishable (see extinguish). Related: Inextinguishably; inextinguishability.
Wiktionary
a. Incapable of being extinguished
WordNet
adj. difficult or impossible to extinguish; "an inextinguishable flame"; "an inextinguishable faith" [ant: extinguishable]
Usage examples of "inextinguishable".
Second Oecumene had several hundred small artificial suns and nucleogenesis stations orbiting very far from the black hole, and tens of thousands of diamond habitats, belt upon concentric belt of asteroid mansions, as if the rings of Saturn, expanded to encompass an area greater than your Solar System, were made of inextinguishable fire and glittering fields of endless, living jewelry!
Where in a lawn of flowering asphodel Amid a wood of pines and cedars blended, There yawned an inextinguishable well Of crimson fire--full even to the brim, And overflowing all the margin trim.
I knew that the bomb would trigger an inextinguishable atomic fire affecting all elements with an atomic number above 10.
The warheads had the characteristic of generating an inextinguishable atomic holocaust which affected all elements having an atomic number higher than 10.
At last he was set free by Pacolet, and carried off amid inextinguishable laughter.
Where else lies the origin of the inextinguishable myth of the great Russian mission to the West?
Their brains, hearts, and vertebral columns were the parts most easily seen, and they were filled with an inextinguishable anguish and sorrow that from its very intensity made itself seen as a blue flame.