undrainableadj.
1. Incapable of being drained dry; inexhaustible.
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the mind > possession > supply > [adjective] > yielding in abundance > unfailing or inexhaustible
unfailinga1382
unwastable?1578
unemptiable1593
undrainable1611
unexhaustible1656
intarissable1661
exhaustless1712
unspendable1876
unlimited1878
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Inespuisable,..vndraynable, which cannot be dryed vp, or laden dry.
1627 J. Carter Plaine Expos. Serm. in Mount 108 Your heauenly Father,..The undrainable Fountaine of all goodnesse.
1652 J. Wright tr. J.-P. Camus Nature's Paradox i. 6 A very plentiful and almost undreinable source of riches.
1842 Ld. Tennyson Œnone (rev. ed.) in Poems (new ed.) I. 123 Overflowing revenue..‘from..labour'd mines undrainable of ore’.
2. Incapable of being freed from water by means of draining.
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the world > matter > liquid > action or process of extracting > [adjective] > unable
undrainable1852
1852 A. Henfrey Vegetation Europe 181 Parts..irreclaimable to cultivation..being either steep arid slopes of the hills or undrainable bogs.
1884 Harper's Mag. Apr. 761/1 Undrainable or undrained..surfaces.
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