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inextinguishable

adjective

  1. unable to be stopped from burning
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Wiktionary

adj

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in-bor. Middle English in- English in- English extinguish Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English extinguishable English inextinguishable 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.

    […] a creature of indomitable will, daemonic, the incarnation of inextinguishable hate.