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INNUMERABLE
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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:
innumerableness (a number beyond counting)
Context examples:
From the windows of our little whitewashed house, which stood high upon a grassy headland, we looked down upon the whole sinister semi-circle of Mounts Bay, that old death trap of sailing vessels, with its fringe of black cliffs and surge-swept reefs on which innumerable seamen have met their end.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The skin roof, stretched tightly as a drumhead, I had thought, sagged and bellied with every gust; and innumerable interstices in the walls, not so tightly stuffed with moss as Maud had supposed, disclosed themselves.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
And then, on the crowded sidewalks there were persons innumerable whose attention he attracted.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Within this confined space a certain number of creatures, mostly types which have passed away in the world below, have lived together for innumerable years.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I have such innumerable presents from him that it is quite impossible for me to value or for him to remember half.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
I make no allowance for innumerable feelings and circumstances that may have all tended to good.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I could mention innumerable instances which, although slight, marked the dispositions of these amiable cottagers.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
All the fruits of the earth shall come to maturity at whatever season we think fit to choose, and increase a hundred fold more than they do at present; with innumerable other happy proposals.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
All the woes of tortured life, all its stupendous indictment of high heaven, its innumerable sorrows, seemed to be centered and condensed into that one dreadful, agonized cry.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
We had a merry game, not made the less merry by the Doctor's mistakes, of which he committed an innumerable quantity, in spite of the watchfulness of the butterflies, and to their great aggravation.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
