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immeasurate

/ɪˈmɛ.ʒɚ.ɪt/

immeasurate adjective: without or beyond measure; unending; boundless.

Adjective

immeasurate (comparative more immeasurate, superlative most immeasurate)

  1. (rare) Without or beyond measure; unending; boundless.
    • ... Baden, nor Wurtemberg, nor the Hesses, nor even the Catholic court of Bavaria looked with favour upon demands so immeasurate as were put forward in the councils of the archbishops and […].1856, The Eclectic Review, page 164
    • But this feeling is confined to the native immeasurate forest : no artificial plantation can give it."1897, Laurie Magnus, A Primer of Wordsworth: With a Critical Essay, page 184

Examples of immeasurate in a sentence

  • He loved these breasts of hers, these assertive softnesses that seemed the signature of an immeasurate tenderness hidden behind the world but expressing itself here in full.1998, Rafi Zabor, The Bear Comes Home: A Novel, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 218:
  • ...eyes; his craggy, eloquent, wonderful face; his unflinching, immeasurate strength.2012, Debra Webb, Julie Miller, Striking Distance: Forbidden Captor, Harlequin, page 563:

Synonyms of immeasurate

Forms of immeasurate

comparativemore immeasurate
superlativemost immeasurate

Origin of immeasurate

From im- + measure + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

Questions about immeasurate

What does immeasurate mean?
Immeasurate means without or beyond measure; unending; boundless.
How do you use immeasurate in a sentence?
He loved these breasts of hers, these assertive softnesses that seemed the signature of an immeasurate tenderness hidden behind the world but expressing itself here in full.
What part of speech is immeasurate?
Immeasurate is an adjective.
How do you pronounce immeasurate?
Immeasurate is pronounced /ɪˈmɛ.ʒɚ.ɪt/.

Words near immeasurate in the dictionary

  1. immeasurable
  2. immeasurable light
  3. immeasurableness
  4. immeasurables
  5. immeasurably
  6. immeasurate
  7. immeasured
  8. immechanical
  9. immechanically
  10. immed.
  11. immediable

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