numerable
capable of being counted, totaled, or numbered.
Origin of numerable
1Other words from numerable
- nu·mer·a·ble·ness, noun
- nu·mer·a·bly, adverb
Words Nearby numerable
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How to use numerable in a sentence
Cricket clubs are perhaps numerable, though yearly increasing; but of the game itself there is no end.
Town Life in Australia | R. E. N. (Richard) TwopenyThere were also commissions to purchase in numerable things, ranging from meerschaum pipes to fine flannel shirts.
Si Klegg, Book 4 (of 6) | John McElroyNot among such innumerable islands and the other provinces, scarcely numerable, where you are not?
An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine | John Henry Cardinal NewmanJack says in a letter that his beard "was not composed of hair, but hairs as straight and numerable as those in a cat's whiskers."
In the Days of Poor Richard | Irving BachellerOn the decayed tree-trunks, too, there are little white columns in numerable, with black heads as though they had been burnt.
Little Johannes | Frederik van Eeden
British Dictionary definitions for numerable
/ (ˈnjuːmərəbəl) /
able to be numbered or counted
Derived forms of numerable
- numerably, adverb
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