Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Too many to be counted; innumerable.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not capable of being counted; innumerable.

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  • noun linguistics An uncountable noun.
  • adjective So many as to be incapable of being counted.
  • adjective mathematics Incapable of being put into one-to-one correspondence with the natural numbers or any subset thereof.
  • adjective grammar, of a noun Describes a meaning of a noun that cannot be used freely with numbers or the indefinite article, and which therefore takes no plural form. Example: information.

Etymologies

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un- + countable (count + -able)

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Examples

  • Then as I woke one morning, looked out the window, and saw our drought-parched maple shining with evaporating raindrops, the word uncountable came to my mind, and along with it the cadence that drove ‘silvery glitterings’ before it, then an intuition of the rhythms of shape of the poem.

    The Best American Poetry 2008 2008

  • The National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago reviewed all 179,855 "uncountable" votes and found the majority attempted to choose Gore.

    jellyfish 2006

  • The National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago reviewed all 179,855 "uncountable" votes and found the majority attempted to choose Gore.

    Archive 2006-07-01 2006

  • Officials in the town of Mihama are concerned that security fences around the base of Nomasaki lighthouse are going to buckle under the weight of an "uncountable" number of padlocks that have been afixed by loved-up couples.

    News On Japan 2009

  • I agree with I can count, its funny how the Right Wing crackpots turn out they always do so in massive "uncountable" Numbers.

    13 Top Stories, Sports and Weather 2009

  • "By this golden round I do endow thee with Wisdom's perfect gold uncountable, that is the talisman whereat all nature's secret paths shall open to thy feet.

    Ayesha, the Return of She Henry Rider Haggard 1890

  • [[mathematicians]], developed this in proving that the real numbers are '' uncountable ''

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2010

  • But sometimes they came, these Russians, in great ships, and made the people of Pastolik show them the way through the islands uncountable of the many-mouthed Yukon.

    NEGORE, THE COWARD 2010

  • The min character, Boone, “thinks” he has committed an uncountable number of murders and goes to Midian, where he feels he will fit in.

    2010 March 31 « The BookBanter Blog 2010

  • But in that time, the United States has lost uncountable jobs, manufacturing industries, and development institutions to other countries, which is now causing serious problems with unemployment and the cost of goods and services to the nation and its citizens.

    2010 March 11 « The BookBanter Blog 2010

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  • uncOuNtablE, UNcountAbLe

    April 28, 2008