uncountable

[ uhn-koun-tuh-buhl ]

/ ʌnˈkaʊn tə bəl /

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adjective

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

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; see origin at un-¹, countable

Words nearby uncountable

uncork, uncorrect, uncorrected, uncorroborated, uncorrupted, uncountable, uncounted, uncouple, uncourteous, uncourtly, uncouth

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She was 73, a mother of 10 and grandmother of an “uncountable number.”
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Thus, the shameful, bigoted neglect of HIV/AIDS for most of his term at an uncountable cost in human life.
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And that from an old bachelor, with uncountable money-bags, to his only nephew!
The Bertrams|Anthony Trollope
These Mullas danced; they crouched down in the dreadful cold, thinking to warm their hands at these uncountable fires.
The Three Mulla-mulgars|Walter De La Mare

He was uncountable millions of light-years from his own people.
The Colors of Space|Marion Zimmer Bradley
The weeded-out descendants, of the victors of uncountable violent contests.
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Outside and above the colony there were uncountable myriads of stars.
Sand Doom|William Fitzgerald Jenkins

British Dictionary definitions for uncountable

uncountable

/ (ʌnˈkaʊntəbəl) /

adjective

too many to be counted; innumerable

linguistics denoting a noun that does not refer to an isolable objectSee mass noun

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