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inextinguishable

inextinguishable adjective: incapable of being extinguished or ended, not extinguishable.

Adjective

inextinguishable (comparative more inextinguishable, superlative most inextinguishable)

  1. Incapable of being extinguished or ended, not extinguishable.
    • These achievements were made at a bloody cost and required courage and indomitable honesty, evidence of the inextinguishable will to survive and to be self-actualized in the face of unspeakable dangers.1979 August 11, Lawrence Mass, “Psychiatry on Trial”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 4, page 8
    • […] a creature of indomitable will, daemonic, the incarnation of inextinguishable hate.1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “VI. Orestea. I: Agamemnon”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 167
    Synonyms:
    unquenchable

inextinguishable meaning in Tamil and Malayalam

inextinguishable in Tamil

தீ முதலியற்றை அணைக்க இயலாத, அணையா, அழிக்க இயலாத, அவிக்க முடியாத

inextinguishable in Malayalam

unquenchable, irrepressible, indestructible
അണയ്ക്കാനാവാത്ത, ശമിപ്പിക്കാൻ കഴിയാത്ത, കെടുത്താനാവാത്ത, തല്ലിക്കെടുത്താനാവാത്ത, നിയന്ത്രിക്കാനാകാത്ത, അശമനീയമായ

Synonyms of inextinguishable

Antonyms

Forms of inextinguishable

comparativemore inextinguishable
superlativemost inextinguishable
alternative formunextinguishable

Origin of inextinguishable

From in- + extinguishable.

Words formed from inextinguishable

Questions about inextinguishable

What does inextinguishable mean?
Inextinguishable means incapable of being extinguished or ended, not extinguishable.
What is inextinguishable in Tamil?
Inextinguishable in Tamil is தீ முதலியற்றை அணைக்க இயலாத, அணையா, அழிக்க இயலாத. See Inextinguishable meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is inextinguishable?
Inextinguishable is an adjective.

Words near inextinguishable in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: inextinguishable (page history and authors); inextinguishable (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); inextinguishable (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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