innumerable
Etymology
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Etymology
From in- + numerable; from Middle English innumerable, from Latin innumerābilis, from in- + numerābilis.
Pronunciation Adjectiveinnumerable
- Not capable of being counted, enumerated, or numbered
- The casualties of the Second World War were so great that they are innumerable.
- 1889, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, New York, N.Y.: Charles L. Webster & Company, →OCLC ↗:
- Soon we could see the innumerable banners fluttering, and then the sun struck the sea of armor and set it all aflash.
- Of a very high number; extremely numerous
- countless, numberless, unnumbered, untold; see also Thesaurus:innumerable
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