untirableとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

untirable (not comparable)

1. Incapable of being tired; never tiring.
   • c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

     A most incomparable man, breathed, as it were,
     To an untirable and continuate goodness […]

   • 1848, John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy‎, London: John W. Parker, Volume I, Book II, Chapter 6, §4, pp. 313-314:

     The Germans […] plod on from day to day, and year to year—the most patient, untirable, and persevering of animals.

   • 1965, Thom Gunn, “Misanthropos” IX (retitled as “Memoirs of the World” in Poems 1950-1966: A Selection, London: Faber & Faber, 1969, p. 41,

     […] I laboured

     to become a god of charm,

     an untirable giver.

同意語

• tireless

アナグラム

• Butlerian, untriable