Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Not counted.
- adjective Uncountable; innumerable.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not counted; not numbered; hence, innumerable.
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- adjective Not
counted .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective too numerous to be counted
Etymologies
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Examples
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Our arguments, our anger, the anxious pleading of philanthropists who saw the young on the East Side going to ruin, the warning year after year of the superintendent of schools that the compulsory education law was but an empty mockery where it was most needed, the knocking of uncounted thousands of children for whom there was no room, uncounted in sober fact; there was not even a way of finding out how many were adrift, 3brought only the response that the tax rate must be kept down.
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Civilian losses remain uncounted, and the damage to our nation too several generations to heal.
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I'm not blogging today but this deserves a mention: King County Elections staff said about 100 bags -- containing up to 20,000 absentee ballots that had been dropped off at polling sites on Election Day -- remain uncounted because of an array of problems caused by the bags 'being overstuffed.
Sound Politics: "Ballot-bag problems may slow counting of 8th District votes" 2006
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A man who lost his True Love in uncounted eons of previous incarnations ago hears her voice through the Night Hearing, and learns that there is another Lesser Redoubt lost somewhere in the darkness of the sunless world.
SF Signal Reader Challenge #3 - SF Books You Haven't Read 2006
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With last week's ruling, however, supervisors appointed to fill a vacancy will have the entirety of their first term uncounted toward term limits.
SFGate: Top News Stories Dennis Herrera 2010
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It was absurd to dismiss in a score of terms the uncounted lights and shadows visible at dawn, the fragile ridges of the dented hills.
DEVELOPMENT A NOVEL BY W. BRYHER WITH A PREFACE BY AMY LOWELL 1920
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His later criteria that an illegal vote could be "uncounted" only with the illegal voter testifying as to who they voted for negates any non proven statements he made earlier.
Sound Politics: Voter registration ruling was based on bogus evidence 2006
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The TARATV correspondent Subrata who is accompanying Mamata in her tour, puts it as "uncounted" as he explains no one can say and know the exact figure.
That night in Nandigram - the Horror that unfolded Abhay N 2007
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In contrast, in all prior recessions, the number of 'uncounted' unemployed
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Jr. Leo Hindery 2011
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His death was initially counted as a homicide but was later "uncounted" after the medical examiner ruled that his death was natural and not from the injuries he suffered after being shot in the head.
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