untirable

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English

Etymology

un- +‎ tirable

Adjective

untirable (comparative more untirable, superlative most untirable)

  1. Incapable of being tired; never tiring.
    • c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :
      A most incomparable man, breathed, as it were,
      To an untirable and continuate goodness […]
    • 1848, John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy‎, London: John W. Parker, Volume I, Book II, Chapter 6, §4, pp. 313-314:
      The Germans […] plod on from day to day, and year to year—the most patient, untirable, and persevering of animals.
    • 1965, Thom Gunn, “Misanthropos” IX (retitled as “Memoirs of the World” in Poems 1950-1966: A Selection, London: Faber & Faber, 1969, p. 41,
      I laboured
      to become a god of charm,
      an untirable giver.

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