inextinguishable

1. 1.

   difficult or impossible to extinguish

   “an inextinguishable flame”

   “an inextinguishable faith”

   Antonymsextinguishable

Questions about inextinguishable

What does inextinguishable mean?

inextinguishable means "difficult or impossible to extinguish".

How many syllables are in inextinguishable?

inextinguishable has 7 syllables and divides as i-nex-tin-gu-i-sha-ble under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is the opposite of inextinguishable?

The recorded antonyms are extinguishable.

Is inextinguishable a common word?

inextinguishable is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.