uncountable
[uhn-koun-tuh-buh l]
- not countable; incapable of having the total precisely ascertained: uncountable colonies of bacteria; uncountable kindnesses and small favors.
- indefinitely large in number; infinite: the uncountable days of eternity.
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Origin of uncountable
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Related Words
boundless, capricious, chancy, countless, enormous, erratic, iffy, immeasurable, immense, incomputable, inestimable, infinite, innumerable, jillion, measureless, numberless, uncertain, unforeseen, unpredictable, untoldExamples from the Web for uncountable
Contemporary Examples
She was 73, a mother of 10 and grandmother of an “uncountable number.”
Thus, the shameful, bigoted neglect of HIV/AIDS for most of his term at an uncountable cost in human life.
Historical Examples
Outside and above the colony there were uncountable myriads of stars.
Sand DoomWilliam Fitzgerald Jenkins
He was uncountable millions of light-years from his own people.
The Colors of SpaceMarion Zimmer Bradley
The sameness of them stretched for uncountable yards in all directions.
LongevityTherese Windser
And that from an old bachelor, with uncountable money-bags, to his only nephew!
The BertramsAnthony Trollope
She was surrounded on every hand by uncountable distant stars.
Talents, IncorporatedWilliam Fitzgerald Jenkins
uncountable
- too many to be counted; innumerable
- linguistics denoting a noun that does not refer to an isolable objectSee mass noun
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