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COUNTLESS
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Too numerous to be counted
Example:
myriad stars
Synonyms:
countless; infinite; innumerable; innumerous; multitudinous; myriad; numberless; uncounted; unnumberable; unnumbered; unnumerable
Classified under:
Similar:
incalculable (not able to be computed or enumerated)
Derivation:
countlessness (a number beyond counting)
Context examples:
All the feuds of countless generations, all the hatreds and cruelties of their narrow history, all the memories of ill-usage and persecution were to be purged that day.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Then the big gate swung slowly open, and they all passed through and found themselves in a high arched room, the walls of which glistened with countless emeralds.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
Flora de Brasil is a digital platform that gathers data from hundreds of years of field work in the Amazon region, with input from countless taxonomists.
(Inventory revises down Amazon tree species list, SciDev.Net)
Time and again and countless times we watched the boat luff into the big whitecaps, lose headway, and be flung back like a cork.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Ceres is covered in countless small, young craters, but none are larger than 175 miles (280 kilometers) in diameter.
(The Case of the Missing Ceres Craters, NASA)
The letter F—had been likewise invariably brought forward, and found productive of such countless jokes, that its character as the wittiest letter in the alphabet had been long established with Elinor.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
There was no sound but that of the distant breakers, mounting from all round, and the chirp of countless insects in the brush.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
She remembered nothing more until she awoke and found herself in a beautiful meadow, full of sunshine, and with countless flowers blooming in every direction.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Frankenstein, your son, your kinsman, your early, much-loved friend; he who would spend each vital drop of blood for your sakes, who has no thought nor sense of joy except as it is mirrored also in your dear countenances, who would fill the air with blessings and spend his life in serving you—he bids you weep, to shed countless tears; happy beyond his hopes, if thus inexorable fate be satisfied, and if the destruction pause before the peace of the grave have succeeded to your sad torments!
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Axial Seamount, one of countless undersea volcanoes, rises seven-tenths of a mile off the seafloor some 300 miles off the Pacific Northwest coast, and its peak lies about eight-tenths of a mile below the ocean's surface.
(Underwater volcano's fiery eruption captured in detail by seafloor observatory, NSF)
