Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Subject to fatigue.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Easily tired or wearied.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Easily tired.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Susceptible to fatigue; able to become physically exhausted.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[French, from Old French, from Late Latin fatīgābilis, from Latin fatīgāre, to fatigue.]

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Examples

  • She was a machine, inde - fatigable; she could sit up and hold him indefinitely and was ready to do so.

    Juxtaposition Anthony, Piers 1982

  • She was a machine, inde - fatigable; she could sit up and hold him indefinitely and was ready to do so.

    Juxtaposition Anthony, Piers 1982

  • He is a warm friend of Great Britain and her Allies and has done much to promote closer relations between Great Britain and the United States. fatigable workers in connection with the war since it began.

    The Tie That Binds 1919

  • Waldo & all his adherents, and this latter is an inveterately malicious creature, will be restless and inde - fatigable till he comes away.

    Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society 1792

  • As a young person beiing often abroad, it’s a bit fatigable being confronted so often with the past when something happens in the present like the F.-case now.

    Don’t Mention the ‘Kellerinzestmonster’ - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2009

  • "Waldo & all his adherents, and this latter is nn inveterately malicious creature, will be restless and inde - fatigable till he comes away.

    Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society 1792

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