uncountable

adjective

un·​count·​able ˌən-ˈkau̇n-tə-bəl How to pronounce uncountable (audio)
: unable to be counted
especially : of an amount too great to be counted
uncountable stars
There are great heaps of mussels; mackerel and sardines in uncountable numbers … Jay Jacobs

Examples of uncountable in a Sentence

an uncountable number of mosquitoes in the yard
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Even soldiers who had yet to see firsthand the hunter-quadcopter’s grisly effects had witnessed onscreen an uncountable number of peers die from the attacks, brought to them by the messaging app Telegram. C.j. Chivers Robert Fass Krish Seenivasan Steven Szczesniak, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2024 Investigators tallied more than 70 fresh injuries on Sara’s body and said there were numerous, uncountable other ones. Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 17 Dec. 2024 But in the physical world there are an uncountable number of moves. James Somers, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024 Would Steven Spielberg be this utterly comfortable hanging out with a director who hadn’t made an uncountable number of behind-the-scenes features with him over the years? Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019 See all Example Sentences for uncountable 

Word History

First Known Use

1582, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of uncountable was in 1582

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“Uncountable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/uncountable. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.

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