What's the difference between indefatigable and inexhaustible?

Indefatigable


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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Byrne's Nursie had the same indefatigable garrulousness, the same sense that she knew all the worst things about her charge – Miranda Richardson's bibulous Queen Elizabeth – so Gloriana and the rest had to indulge her.
  • (2) Richard Overholt issued the first warning signals about the perils of tobacco and served as an indefatigable leader of the antismoking crusade throughout his professional career.
  • (3) Hayley, however, is typically bumptious and indefatigable.
  • (4) Both will be called to explain themselves before parliament's public accounts committee, at the invitation of Margaret Hodge , the indefatigable ringmistress of Westminster proceedings that can often rival an episode of The Apprentice for drama.
  • (5) They allowed Pedro Martínez Losa’s team to take control from the opening minute and, thanks in most part to the indefatigable Carter, Arsenal created all the best chances.
  • (6) Rather than a rags-to-riches fairytale of genius forged in the adversity of extreme poverty, plucked from those limitations by some external talent scout, Campbell's success is celebrated in his home town as the result of hard work and discipline fostered within an upwardly mobile lower middle-class family, headed by an indefatigable father determined to help his son fulfil his own frustrated dreams of being a player.
  • (7) Danny Drinkwater and N’Golo Kanté were indefatigable in midfield.
  • (8) 500 BC about Buddha who in his former life as King Sivi wished to give a part of his body to the first one who asked for it, lies at the root of the success story of the indefatigable Dr Silva of Colombo, who succeeded through the oldest known story about donation of organs to make Sri Lanka the 'world champion' in eye donation.
  • (9) No matter who we’re playing we play three in midfield, we play [Danny] Drinkwater in the middle as a holding player and we play Kanté either side.” While it remains to be seen whether Leicester can keep the indefatigable Kanté, Riyad Mahrez and Jamie Vardy at the club now that the Champions League anthem has been added to the playlist at the King Power Stadium, a clear message has already been transmitted from the dressing room to Walsh about the type of players he seeks to bring in over the summer.
  • (10) Vardy had opened the scoring with a breakaway goal starting from a West Ham corner and set up by the ubiquitous, indefatigable N’Golo Kanté, in the 18th minute, but Bilic’s team had always looked dangerous and, to give Moss his due, several Leicester defenders had been guilty of grappling with opponents at set pieces before the referee decided to punish Wes Morgan and award the first penalty.
  • (11) By the standard of lifelong, indefatigable, and for him courageous dedication to a cause, he deserved the title of Mr Palestine that he held for a whole generation of his people's struggle.
  • (12) Their attitude could be summed up by Joe Ledley’s indefatigable performance in midfield, back in the starting lineup only 40 days after breaking his leg.
  • (13) Murray has a phalanx of female supporters now, including Mauresmo, his mother – the indefatigable Judy Murray – and his fiancee, Kim Sears.
  • (14) 2.13pm BST Another dispatch from the indefatigable Rebecca Ratcliffe: Sara Raybould, director of the London College of Music, mentioned in an earlier post that mature candidates are using clearing as an opportunity to make a last-minute application to university.
  • (15) If you lived in the north-west at any time after 1973, it was impossible to ignore the indefatigable broadcaster, music mogul, social activist, proud northerner, football fan, writer and exhibitionist Tony Wilson, who has died aged 57 of a heart attack after being diagnosed with cancer earlier this year.
  • (16) Beckerman remained indefatigable throughout (though I could forgive him for never wanting to see this particular Guardian writer again …) – at the end of that penalty shootout he immediately turned without pause for a moment of self-pity, as he strode to applaud the traveling RSL fans shivering in sub-zero temperatures.
  • (17) These indefatigable researchers designed and built a number of tonometers of which most have been saved and which are now on display in a permanent exhibition in the Royal Netherlands Ophthalmic Hospital at Utrecht.
  • (18) An indefatigable globetrotter, Briggs was an especially enthusiastic visitor to China in the 1960s, when the country was convulsed by Mao’s bloody and chaotic Cultural Revolution.
  • (19) A source of enduring irritation to him – and to his indefatigable literary agent Mic Cheetham, who became a beloved friend – was the tendency of some critics who admired his mainstream work to treat his SF as a potboiling sideline best passed over in silence, like some embarrassing and disreputable, but otherwise harmless quirk.
  • (20) Santi Cazorla’s performance, combining high skill and indefatigable running, could have been set to music and, in the process, he and his team-mates blew a gaping hole in City’s aspirations of making it three titles in four seasons.

Inexhaustible


Definition:

  • (a.) Incapable of being exhausted, emptied, or used up; unfailing; not to be wasted or spent; as, inexhaustible stores of provisions; an inexhaustible stock of elegant words.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The work, The Spear, by Brett Murray, unleashed a brouhaha that has hogged headlines for more than a week in South Africa and earned that inexhaustible accolade "painting-gate".
  • (2) It is, said publisher Little, Brown, "a virtuoso performance whose soaring riffs on the inexhaustible marvel of human perception and rage against the dying of the light will stand among Iain Banks' greatest work".
  • (3) They are being used for a multitude of purposes and the almost inexhaustible varieties of molecular architecture that macromolecular materials can possess provides the possibility for a myriad of applications.
  • (4) On the ground, however, the continuing Russian support is clear, as the separatists appear to have an inexhaustible supply of Grad missiles and other weaponry.
  • (5) Her energy was remarkable; she had an inexhaustible supply of hatred, expended daily, yet burning fiercely for years and years.
  • (6) All those incidents drew on a well of goodwill that had once seemed inexhaustible and now leave Simms in a tricky position as he attempts to reconcile responsibilities to Farah, to Rupp, to Project Oregon and to his business.
  • (7) This paper is a summary of our work with a new drug delivery system: a totally implantable, continuous infusion pump, with a self-contained inexhaustible power source.
  • (8) George suggests that “waste” is actually a misnomer since human faeces is an inexhaustible source of valuable nutrients.
  • (9) The capacity of human beings to think up new ways to kill one another proved inexhaustible, as did our capacity to exempt from mercy those who look different or pray to a different God.
  • (10) The search of cases of insanity among the rebels, the idea that their acts could only express some kind of phrenopathic disorder opens the debate on the very existence of some morbid types such as Falret's and Pottier's "reasoning, inexhaustible and proselyte lunatics", the "many characters with fanciful projects, including reformists of the human race, and various utopists" that Morel includes in his classification of hereditary insanity, Serieux's and Capgras "idealists concerned with justice" found amongst delusions related to altruistic claims, Dide's and Guiraud's "idealistic passions, social reformers, anarchists" appear to us as very outdated classifications, on the border of the psychiatric field.
  • (11) Fuentes's intellectual leadership is inexhaustible.
  • (12) I had faith in those who believed in the inexhaustible potential of people power.
  • (13) Their resources appear at first to be inexhaustible; a long-term trend of depletion is concealed by short-term fluctuations; small numbers of powerful people advance their interests by damaging those of everyone else; short-term profits trump long-term survival.
  • (14) The availability of an inexhaustible and easily reproducible source of such antibodies, which can be harvested from cell culture supernatants of permanent hybrid cell lines and animal ascites fluids, promises to advance considerably our knowledge of biology at the cellular, subcellular, and molecular levels.
  • (15) These findings raise the possibility that EPO bound to endocardial cells might utilize H2O2 generated either by overlying phagocytes or endogenous cardiac metabolism along with the virtually inexhaustible supply of Br- from flowing blood to fuel HOBr-mediated cell damage.
  • (16) There are places to eat and drink on some of the islands and an almost inexhaustible supply of locations to explore.
  • (17) His almost inexhaustible vitality, combined with a passionate belief in humanity, socialism and people's inherent common sense, enabled him time to engage in local politics: for a five-year period he was a Labour councillor.
  • (18) The result, the government says, will be an inexhaustible supply of cheap, clean energy that will also ease the country's $183bn a year dependence on Middle East oil.
  • (19) The connection between the intimate and the public lay at the heart of her work, an apparently inexhaustible stream of novels, short stories and essays.
  • (20) Original, imaginative, inexhaustible and right on top of the story.