Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Incapable of being counted; innumerable. See Synonyms at incalculable.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Incapable of being counted; without ascertained or ascertainable number; innumerable.
Wiktionary
- adj. Too many to count; innumerable or incalculable
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Incapable of being counted; not ascertainable; innumerable.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. too numerous to be counted
Etymologies
- count + -less (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Throughout my life I have used the word countless thousands of times and given many great comfort when I did use it.”
“Mr. �NOAM CHOMSKY (Former Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology): He studied what he called the countless small actions of unknown people that lead to the great moments that enter the historical record.”
“Brooks, and Chief Dave Snowden, who authorized me to train countless times on city time.”
“Not only was our regular route structure an adventurer's dream, but Pan Am was often called upon to participate in countless evacuations and missions of mercy, which added to our sense of excitement and expansiveness.”
The Huffington Post: Helen Davey: Tales of Pan Am: "The Pool"
“People are no longer looking like people and while this strange display is laid out in countless magazine editorials for countless years now, could it be that this increasingly peculiar parade of bizarrely enhanced features is finally striking a cord with the public and celebrities?”
“Your books contain countless references to musical work -- everything from rock to opera to jazz.”
“I've been in countless arguments that can be definitively altered just by stating ones background or identity.”
“Spitting on a person has been established in countless cases to be assault.”
““Recycled” cash adds to the GDP in countless examples.”
“Stoker's "Dracula" is available in countless editions, and since its publication, countless other authors have exploited the vampire in chief's undying appeal.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘countless’.
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-more or -less
Words ending with *more or *less, more or less. Many of theses terms also appear on the list The -less Said, which see.
schemaless, unless, useless, guileless, wireless, regardless, homeless, endless, nevertheless, countless, jobless, doubtless and 434 more...
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unknown to numerous
manifold, numerous, multiplied, complicated, continuum, copy, graph, cyclostyle, polygraph, hectograph, mimeograph, multiply and 35 more...
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an ancient someone, dressed in white
past, forgotten, rush, asleep, thunder, countless, roses, blood, rosebud, veins, wrists, shudder and 9 more...
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Tunie: No Man's Land
By Eric Bogle.
Well, how'd you do, Private Willie McBride,
D'you mind if I sit down here by your graveside?
I'll rest for a while in the warm summer sun,
Been walking...again, vain, dying, killing, shame, glory, sorrow, suffering, end, war, the cause, why and 47 more...
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May28thDF
augment, unmoor, foul, bunch, intricacy, inkling, walled, publisized, purchase, dependent, frivolous, sophomoric and 4 more...
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2. razred: Unit 7
leisure, worldwide, medieval, wildly, accustomed, common, pub, sticking point, whether, rickshaw, respond, poverty and 13 more...
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Poetrie: A Proposal
O FE dear, what XTC
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Once KT 1 me with her I's;
2 LN I O countless sighs.
'Twas MLE while over Cs.
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2013-01-07
preference, infinitive, comedian, perfectionist, versatile, countless
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