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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French inextinguible and its source, Latin inextinguibilis.
Adjective
inextinguible (comparative more inextinguible, superlative most inextinguible)
- (obsolete) Inextinguishable.
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, section 2, member 4:Cornelius Drible [hath made] a perpetual motion, inextinguible lights, linum non ardens, with many such feats […]
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin inextinguibilis.
Pronunciation
Adjective
inextinguible (plural inextinguibles)
- inextinguishable
- (figuratively) unquenchable; uncontrollable, unstoppable
- une soif inextinguible ― an unquenchable thirst
- un rire inextinguible ― an inextinguishable laugh
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Galician
Adjective
inextinguible m or f (plural inextinguibles)
- inextinguishable
- Synonyms: inapagable, inapagábel
- Antonyms: apagable, apagábel, extinguible, extinguíbel
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Spanish
Adjective
inextinguible m or f (masculine and feminine plural inextinguibles)
- inextinguishable
- Synonym: inapagable
- Antonyms: apagable, extinguible
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