countable
Syllables: count·a·ble/ˈkaʊn.tə.bəl/US/ˈkaʊn.tə.bəl/
countable adjective: capable of being counted; having a quantity.
Adjective
countable (not comparable)
- Capable of being counted; having a quantity.
- Antonyms:
- uncountable, countless, numberless, innumerable, uncounted, unnumberable, unnumbered, untold
- Finite or countably infinite; having a one-to-one correspondence (bijection) with a subset of the natural numbers.
- Antonyms:
- uncountable, infinite
- Countably infinite; having a bijection with the natural numbers.
- Freely usable with the indefinite article and with numbers.
- In these extracts the word abuse is used in the sense of ‘an individual piece of invective’ or ‘an abusive comment’ and is clearly a countable noun.2014, James Lambert, “Diachronic stability in Indian English lexis”, in World Englishes, page 112
- Synonyms:
- count
- Antonyms:
- uncountable, noncount, non-count
Noun
countable (plural countables)
- A noun that is countable.
- Synonyms:
- count noun, countable noun
- Antonyms:
- uncountable, mass noun, noncount noun, non-count noun, uncountable noun
countable meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Bengali and Arabic
countable in Hindi
- capable of being counted, having a quantity
- गणनीय gaṇnīya
countable in Tamil
- எண்ணிடத்தக்க, எண்ணத்தக்கன, கணக்கிடத்தக்க, எண்ணவேண்டிய, எண்ணப்பட்ட, பொறுப்புள்ள
countable in Bengali
- countable, estimable
- গণ্য gonno
countable in Arabic
- grammar: freely used with numbers and the definite article
- مَعْدُود maʕdūd
More languagesFewer languages
- countable in Indonesian
- terhitung
- countable in Persian
- شمارشپذیر
Examples of countable in a sentence
- Rational numbers are a countable set, so almost all numbers are irrational.
- Many languages do not distinguish countable nouns from uncountable nouns.
- One meaning in law of the usually uncountable noun "information" is used in the plural and is countable.
Synonyms of countable
Antonyms
- uncountable
- countless
- numberless
- innumerable
- uncounted
- unnumberable
- unnumbered
- untold
- infinite
- non-denumerable
6 more antonymsFewer antonyms
Forms of countable
| plural | countables |
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Origin of countable
From Middle English countable, equivalent to count (“to enumerate”) + -able.
Words formed from countable
Phrases with countable
Questions about countable
- What does countable mean?
- Countable means capable of being counted; having a quantity.
- What is countable in Hindi?
- Countable in Hindi is गणनीय (gaṇnīya). See Countable meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is countable?
- Countable can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce countable?
- Countable is pronounced /ˈkaʊn.tə.bəl/.
Words near countable in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: countable (page history and authors); countable (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); গণ্য (Bengali) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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