indefatigable

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˌɪn.dɪˈfæt.ɪ.ɡə.bəl/
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• Australian, General-American: /ˌɪn.dəˈfæt.ɪ.ɡə.bəl/
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• Australian, General-American: [ˌɪn.dəˈfæɾ.ɪ.ɡə.bəl]
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• proscribed, sometimes: /ˌɪn.dɪ.fəˈti.ɡə.bəl/
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• proscribed, sometimes: /ˌɪn.də-/
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• CMU ARPABET: IH2 N D IH0 F AE1 T IH0 G AH0 B AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle French, from Latin indēfatīgābilis (“untiring”), from in- (“not”) + dēfatīgō (“to tire out”).

Named by the British Admiralty in honor of the HMS Indefatigable.

41 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: لَا يَتْعَبُ (lā yatʕabu) — extremely persistent and untiring
• Armenian: անխոնջ (anxonǰ) — extremely persistent and untiring
• Armenian: չհոգնող (čʻhognoġ) — extremely persistent and untiring
• Belarusian: нясто́мны (njastómny) — extremely persistent and untiring
• Bulgarian: неуморен (neumoren) — extremely persistent and untiring
• Chinese Mandarin: 不倦 (bùjuàn) — extremely persistent and untiring
• Czech: neúnavný — extremely persistent and untiring
• Danish: utrættelig — extremely persistent and untiring
• Dutch: onvermoeibaar — extremely persistent and untiring
• Dutch: onvermoeid — extremely persistent and untiring
• Finnish: uupumaton — extremely persistent and untiring
• Finnish: väsymätön — extremely persistent and untiring
• French: infatigable — extremely persistent and untiring
• German: unermüdlich — extremely persistent and untiring
• Greek: ακούραστος (akoúrastos) — extremely persistent and untiring
• Ancient Greek: ἀκάματος (akámatos) — extremely persistent and untiring
• Ancient Greek: ἄτρυτος (átrutos) — extremely persistent and untiring
• Hebrew: לא מתעיף (la' mth'if) — extremely persistent and untiring
• Hungarian: fáradhatatlan — extremely persistent and untiring
• Hungarian: kitartó — extremely persistent and untiring
• Irish: dochloíte — extremely persistent and untiring
• Irish: dosháraithe — extremely persistent and untiring
• Irish: dothraochta — extremely persistent and untiring
• Irish: dothuirsithe — extremely persistent and untiring
• Italian: infaticabile — extremely persistent and untiring
• Macedonian: неуморен (neumoren) — extremely persistent and untiring
• Macedonian: безуморен (bezumoren) — extremely persistent and untiring
• Māori: pikoni — extremely persistent and untiring
• Norwegian: utrøttelig — extremely persistent and untiring
• Portuguese: infatigável — extremely persistent and untiring
• Russian: неутоми́мый (neutomímyj) — extremely persistent and untiring
• Russian: неуста́нный (neustánnyj) — extremely persistent and untiring
• Russian: упо́рный (upórnyj) — extremely persistent and untiring
• Scottish Gaelic: do-shàrachaidh — extremely persistent and untiring
• Spanish: incansable — extremely persistent and untiring
• Spanish: infatigable — extremely persistent and untiring
• Swedish: outtröttlig — extremely persistent and untiring
• Tocharian B: ekwalatte — extremely persistent and untiring
• Ukrainian: невто́мний (nevtómnyj) — extremely persistent and untiring
• Ukrainian: неосла́бний (neoslábnyj) — extremely persistent and untiring
• Welsh: di-flino — extremely persistent and untiring