Indefatigable
[,ɪndɪ'fætɪgəb(ə)l] or [,ɪndɪ'fætɪɡəbl]
Definition
(adj.) showing sustained enthusiastic action with unflagging vitality; 'an indefatigable advocate of equal rights'; 'a tireless worker'; 'unflagging pursuit of excellence' .
Checked by Ernest--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Incapable of being fatigued; not readily exhausted; unremitting in labor or effort; untiring; unwearying; not yielding to fatigue; as, indefatigable exertions, perseverance, application.
Checker: Willa
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Unwearied, untiring, unflagging, persevering, persistent, sedulous, assiduous, unremitting, never-tiring.
Typed by Belinda
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Unwearied, incessant, persistent, indomitable
ANT:Indolent, indifferent, idle
Typed by Konrad
Definition
adj. that cannot be fatigued or wearied out: unremitting in effort.—n. Indefat′igableness.—adv. Indefat′igably.
Typist: Vilma
Examples
- She says Lydgate is indefatigable, and is making a fine thing of Bulstrode's institution. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The most indefatigable, true friend. Jane Austen. Emma.
- I spent no time in taverns, games, or frolics of any kind, and my industry in my business continued as indefatigable as it was necessary. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- His gratitude to his kind benefactor knew no bounds, and his industry was indefatigable. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Frazer still await a thorough critical examination, and to his works the reader must go for the indefatigable expansion of this idea. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Discovered long before by the indefatigable Scheele, it bore at the beginning of the nineteenth century the name oxymuriatic acid. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Mersenne was a stimulating and indefatigable correspondent. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- And so having easily won the daughter's good-will, the indefatigable little woman bent herself to conciliate the august Lady Southdown. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- A more resolute, indefatigable pioneer never wrought amidst rocks and dangers. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- His researches covered a very large part of the field of chemistry, and he was indefatigable in running down any new idea which his active brain chanced to hit upon. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- I heard him as I came upstairs, and the theatre is engaged of course by those indefatigable rehearsers, Agatha and Frederick. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- He was respected by all who knew him for his integrity and indefatigable attention to public business. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- He said, that these were men to whose indefatigable zeal modern philosophers were indebted for most of the foundations of their knowledge. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- To so practised and indefatigable a horseman as Mr. Rochester, it would be but a morning's ride. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Then he was absolutely untiring and indefatigable. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- She read over, with indefatigable patience, all those law papers, with which, before she came to Queen's Crawley, he had promised to entertain her. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The boy was indefatigable but not altogether charmed with agriculture. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It is practically the product of the brain of a single man, Ottmar Mergenthaler, a most ingenious and indefatigable inventor living in Baltimore. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- They were followed by the indefatigable Hadrian (117 A.D.), Antoninus Pius (138 A.D.), and Marcus Aurelius (161 to 180 A.D.). H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- My tears now fell in despondency at the dangers and labour of the task I had undertaken; yet I toiled on with indefatigable industry. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Fill your glass, and pass the wine,' said the indefatigable visitor. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
Typist: Vilma