What is another word for exhaustible?

Pronunciation: [ɛɡzˈɔːstəbə͡l] (IPA)

Exhaustible is a word that is used to describe something that can be used up or depleted. Some synonyms for the word are finite, limited and depleted. Other synonyms might include consumable, expendable and dwindling. These words all imply that the resource or item in question will eventually run out, and can no longer be used. Another way to describe something that is exhaustible might be to say that it is non-renewable, meaning that it cannot be replenished once it has been used. Whether we are talking about natural resources, energy sources or personal resources like time or energy, it is important to recognize when something is exhaustible so that we can take responsible action to conserve it.

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What are the hypernyms for Exhaustible?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the opposite words for exhaustible?

Exhaustible is an adjective that describes something that can be used up or depleted. The opposite of exhaustible is inexhaustible, which is used to describe resources or reserves that cannot be emptied, such as renewable energy sources like solar or wind power. Another antonym of exhaustible is boundless, meaning limitless or immeasurable. Non-depletable is also a valid antonym, which refers to something not subject to depletion or exhaustion. The last antonym that can be considered is infinite, which means having no limits or boundaries. All these antonyms address the concept of abundance and availability of resources, opposite to the inevitability of depletion that exhaustible entails.

What are the antonyms for Exhaustible?

Usage examples for Exhaustible

She speaks from a mind overflowing with general information, made available by a retentive memory, a ready wit, and in exhaustible good spirits.
"The Idler in France"
Marguerite Gardiner
But a hundred generations have not exhausted the common properties of animals or of plants, of sulphur or of phosphorus; nor do we suppose them to be exhaustible, but proceed to new observations and experiments, in the full confidence of discovering new properties which were by no means implied in those we previously knew.
"A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2)"
John Stuart Mill
For by another paradox-this time not of art but of nature-the extraordinary is exhaustible and the ordinary is not.
"The English Novel"
George Saintsbury

Famous quotes with Exhaustible

  • Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not. A book is not an isolated entity: it is a narration, an axis of innumerable narrations. One literature differs from another, either before or after it, not so much because of the text as for the manner in which it is read.
    Jorge Luis Borges

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