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inextinguible

inextinguible adjective: inextinguishable.

Adjective

inextinguible (comparative more inextinguible, superlative most inextinguible)

  1. (obsolete) Inextinguishable.
    • Cornelius Drible [hath made] a perpetual motion, inextinguible lights, linum non ardens, with many such feats […]1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II...

Forms of inextinguible

comparativemore inextinguible
superlativemost inextinguible

Origin of inextinguible

Borrowed from Middle French inextinguible and its source, Latin inextinguibilis.

Questions about inextinguible

What does inextinguible mean?
Inextinguible means inextinguishable.
What part of speech is inextinguible?
Inextinguible is an adjective.

Words near inextinguible in the dictionary

  1. inextension
  2. inextensional
  3. inextensive
  4. inexterminable
  5. inextinct
  6. inextinguible
  7. inextinguishability
  8. inextinguishable
  9. inextinguishableness
  10. inextinguishably
  11. inextirpable

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