inextinguible

From Middle French inextinguible and its source, Latin inextinguibilis.

inextinguible (comparative more inextinguible, superlative most inextinguible)

1. (obsolete) Inextinguishable. [15th-17th c.]
   • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970, partition II, section 2, member 4:

     Cornelius Drible [hath made] a perpetual motion, inextinguible lights, linum non ardens, with many such feats […]

Borrowed from Late Latin inextinguibilis.

• IPA^(key): /i.nɛk.stɛ̃.ɡibl/

inextinguible (plural inextinguibles)

1. inextinguishable
2. (figuratively) unquenchable; uncontrollable, unstoppable

   une soif inextinguible ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   un rire inextinguible ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

• “inextinguible” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• inextinguíbel

inextinguible m or f (plural inextinguibles)

1. inextinguishable

• inapagable, inapagábel

• apagable, apagábel, extinguible, extinguíbel

• “inextinguible” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

inextinguible (plural inextinguibles)

1. inextinguishable

• inapagable

• apagable
• extinguible

• “inextinguible” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.