incalculable

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  1. adjective Impossible to calculate: a mass of incalculable figures.
  2. adjective Too great to be calculated or reckoned: incalculable wealth.
  3. adjective Impossible to foresee; unpredictable: "The motions of her mind were as incalculable as the flit of a bird” (Edith Wharton).
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  • The pain these revelations would cause George—if I couldn't somehow suppress them—was incalculable, and I was selfish enough not to want to be the one who caused them to be aired. —  muller 10 fixed
  • The sum of human misery and suffering is simply incalculable, as is the loss of life; and the gradual and general brutalization goes on and on and on far past any preceding horrors With all my love to you and Mollie and the trio W.H.P. —  The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II
  • The contribution of every great nation to the common stock of great ideals is incalculable, and it would be interesting to investigate which nation is most successfully working out its great ideals in practice. —  William of Germany
  • The benefits conferred by free access to a large collection of standard books is incalculable, and certainly if there is such a thing as retributive justice, it is about time it showed its hand. —  Life in Canada Fifty Years Ago
  • The results of this victory were incalculable, and made us masters of almost all Prussia The Emperor showed his great satisfaction with Marshal Davout and with the divisions of Morand, Friant and Gudin by an order of the day, which was read out to all companies and even in the ambulances carrying the wounded. —  The Memoirs of General the Baron de Marbot
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  1. = French incalculable = Spanish incalculable = Portuguese incalculavel = Italian incalcolabile; as in- + calculable.
 

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/ɪnˈkælkjuləbl/
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