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inexhaustive, a.|ɪnɛgˈzɔːstɪv|
[in-3.]
Not exhaustive.
1. = inexhaustible; exhaustless.
1728–46Thomson Spring 478 Ah, where find words..whose power..may perfume my lays With that fine oil, those aromatic gales, That inexhaustive flow continual round? 1799Southey Eng. Eclogues Poet. Wks. III. 166 Contemplate..What inexhaustive springs of public wealth The vast design required. 1838Fraser's Mag. XVIII. 525 The sea..nourishes an inexhaustive store of shells.
2. That does not exhaust the subject dealt with.
1865Pall Mall G. 24 May 11 It [a book] is admittedly desultory and inexhaustive.
Hence ineˈxhaustively adv., in an inexhaustive manner; inexhaustibly; in a way that does not exhaust the matter.
1882Seeley Nat. Relig. 122 Occupation for the thought so inexhaustively interesting. |