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umpteen
[ uhmp-teen ]
adjective
- innumerable; many.
umpteen
/ ˌʌmpˈtiːn /
determiner
- informal.
- very many
umpteen things to do
- ( as pronoun )
umpteen of them came
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Derived Forms
- ˌumpˈteenth, nounadjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of umpteen1
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Example Sentences
In four previous lessons over the past decade-plus, I’d managed umpteen wipeouts and a brief half-second of nearly standing upright.
Go back and listen to Taylor Swift’s “Bad Blood,” or Tove Lo’s “Talking Body,” or Ellie Goulding’s “Around U,” or Daya’s “Hide Away,” or Selena Gomez’s “Sober,” or umpteen others that each seemed to be shouting for our attention.
Fifty states, umpteen localities, all of them with different rules not only about the rate of tax, but which items are exempt.
And predictably Clinton found umpteen opportunities to brag about himself, his initiatives, his wife, his record in office.
I got home at 1:30 AM and there were umpteen frantic messages from my friends.
I've made my fortune three times over, and I've got umpteen thousands more than I need for myself or Mothereen.
We dug, if you please, into an old city, and broke into tombs umpteen thousand years old.
Zeligs of umpteen disguises and ever changing, shimmering loyalties.
Inherited umpteen million bucks, and plays around all the time.
And at that it's five o'clock before I'm landed at a little flag station umpteen miles beyond nowhere.
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