inextinguishable
adjEtymology From in- + extinguishable.
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
- Antonyms
- extinguishable
- Derived terms
- inextinguishableness, inextinguishably