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Definitions for innumerable
ɪˈnu mər ə bəl, ɪˈnyu-in·nu·mer·able

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. countless, infinite, innumerable, innumerous, multitudinous, myriad, numberless, uncounted, unnumberable, unnumbered, unnumerableadjective

    too numerous to be counted

    "incalculable riches"; "countless hours"; "an infinite number of reasons"; "innumerable difficulties"; "the multitudinous seas"; "myriad stars"; "untold thousands"

Wiktionary

  1. innumerableadjective

    Not capable of being counted, enumerated, or numbered, hence, indefinitely numerous; of great number.

  2. Etymology: ; from innumérable, from innumerabilis, from.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Innumerableadjective

    Not to be counted for multitude.

    Etymology: innumerable, Fr. innumerabilis, Lat.

    You have sent innumerable substance
    To furnish Rome, and to prepare the ways
    You have for dignities. William Shakespeare, Henry VIII.

    Cover me, ye pines,
    Ye cedars! with innumerable boughs
    Hide me where I may never see them more. John Milton.

    In lines, which appear of an equal length, one may be longer than the other by innumerable parts. John Locke.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Innumerableadjective

    not capable of being counted, enumerated, or numbered, for multitude; countless; numberless; unnumbered, hence, indefinitely numerous; of great number

  2. Etymology: [L. innumerabilis : cf. F. innumefable. See In- not, and Numerable.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Innumerable

    in-nū′mėr-a-bl, adj. that cannot be numbered: countless.—ns. Innūmerabil′ity, the state or quality of being innumerable; Innū′merableness.—adv. Innū′merably.—adj. Innū′merous, without number: innumerable.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of innumerable in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of innumerable in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of innumerable in a Sentence

  1. Jorge Luis Borges:

    Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not. A book is not an isolated entity: it is a narration, an axis of innumerable narrations. One literature differs from another, either before or after it, not so much because of the text as for the manner in which it is read.

  2. Thophane Nicolas:

    We believe on the contrary that there are innumerable ways to make animal mummies.

  3. Ralph Waldo Emerson:

    Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.

  4. Kelli Ward:

    Congress's bipartisan spending addiction was on full display earlier this year when Arizona Reps. Kyrsten Sinema and Martha McSally voted for the $ 1.3 trillion omnibus bill, which was rife with waste and funded innumerable Democratic priorities, the President's proposed spending cuts should be passed right away.

  5. Camille Cosby:

    I firmly believe her recent testimony during trial was perjured; as was shown at trial, it was unsupported by any evidence and riddled with innumerable, dishonest contradictions.

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