Inexhaustible: adj. (word coming from the privative prefix in- and from tarir).
The adjective "inexhaustible" has several meanings:
1. Which cannot be dried up, ever flowing (abundant, inexhaustible).
Inexhaustible source.
By exaggeration: Inexhaustible crying.
By metaphor: An “inexhaustible source of peace and joy” (Fénelon).
2. Figurative meaning: He has an inexhaustible verve.
An endless imagination.
He is inexhaustible on this subject.
Quote from the French writer Marcel Proust...
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