Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being indefatigable; unweariedness; persistency.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state of being indefatigable.
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- noun
Tirelessness ;persistence ;stamina .
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- noun tireless determination
Etymologies
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Examples
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* Seeing as this had to be conveyed to Saddam via a translator, using the word indefatigability was a bit dangerous, wasnt it?
What's Going On Mark Steel 2009
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If it is indefatigability you are after, try Sky's Super League, where commentators Eddie and Stevo never tire of extending metaphors beyond breaking point.
Women's sporting emancipation could use a famous hot dog or two 2011
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Strong, proud and human – no flipper for her, though her feet are draped with seaweed – this mermaid's jaw suggests the same patient indefatigability as that of the town she symbolises.
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Later, when the East End came under bombardment during the blitz, the courage of its people came to symbolise British indefatigability.
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To write well about history you do not need a Ph.D., just a few rare but accessible qualities: insatiable curiosity, critical intellect, disciplined imagination, indefatigability in the pursuit of truth and a slightly weird vocation for trying to get to know dead people by studying the sources they have left us.
Faulty Navigators Felipe Fernández-Armesto 2011
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Strong, proud and human – no flipper for her, though her feet are draped with seaweed – this mermaid's jaw suggests the same patient indefatigability as that of the town she symbolises.
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Yes the moniker "entrepreneur" connotes innovation and indefatigability.
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Despite their indefatigability in itemizing the rhetorical moves, the ancients stopped short of so antihumanist a line.
BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES ROBERT ROWLAND SMITH 2010
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Despite their indefatigability in itemizing the rhetorical moves, the ancients stopped short of so antihumanist a line.
BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES ROBERT ROWLAND SMITH 2010
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Yes the moniker "entrepreneur" connotes innovation and indefatigability.
whichbe commented on the word indefatigability
The ability to never feel fatiqued, tired, or undetermined; quite assiduous.
May 16, 2008
yarb commented on the word indefatigability
Sir, I salute your courage, your strength, your indefatigability!
- George Galloway to Saddam Hussein
May 16, 2008
TankHughes commented on the word indefatigability
Indefatigibility. It makes me a little tired and nauseous getting through all the stressed syllables in this word.
May 14, 2015