Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Innumerable.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Without number; numberless; innumerable.
Wiktionary
- adj. Not capable of being counted or numerated; indefinitely numerous.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Archaic Innumerable.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. too numerous to be counted
Etymologies
- From Latin in- + numerus. (Wiktionary)
- From Latin innumerus : in-, not; see in-1 + numerus, number; see number. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“My parents, Andrew and Dorothy Steuer, also contributed to this project in innumerous ways.”
“innumerous," and the rest of his bad English -- in spite of bombast, horrors, maundering, sheer stuff and nonsense of all kinds, there is”
“But the metaphor's worked well enough for innumerous editorial writers, from the Cold War to climate change.”
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“Only having to complete two more classes to graduate, I always thought my future in political sciences as wide open with innumerous possibilities; unfortunately this proved untrue.”
“I guess that see it as more of a timewaster in that now you have something that can store innumerous games and apps and allow you do something other than solitaire or snake while you wait for your friend to show up and a tighter leash, i.e. you can do more things with it, kind of like a computer, but it takes a little longer.”
“While individually one of these new light posts may only generate up to 380 watts of clean energy, if all the innumerous lamp posts were replaced with ones like these the combined effect could make a great difference.”
“And there are innumerous examples for the coercion to provide the information which then is used against you by the government.”
“I'd have thought there would be innumerous sites out there!”
“In the past three seasons of Friday Night Lights, Riggins has seduced the town sweetheart, dallied with a single mom, and encountered innumerous “rally girls.””
“There are innumerous examples of absolutes in the Bible†good and evil, right and wrong, heaven and hell, wise and foolish, friend and foe.”
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