innumerable

Adjective

innumerable (comparative more innumerable, superlative most innumerable)

1. Not capable of being counted, enumerated, or numbered.
   • The casualties of the Second World War were so great that they are innumerable.
   • Soon we could see the innumerable banners fluttering, and then the sun struck the sea of armor and set it all aflash.1889, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, New York, N.Y.: Charles L. Webster & Company, →OCLC
2. Of a very high number; extremely numerous.
   • The wide sandy plain of the valley, some five miles long, which slopes imperceptibly down to Issik Pakhta, is overgrown with minute bushes. All the tiny streams we crossed unite to form the Alessun Gol, which then flows westwards to the pasture grounds of Kala Otlak. We observed dozens of herds of...1939, Wilhelm Filchner, “Issik Pakhta—The Sarts—Good-bye to Borodijin”, in E. O. Lorimer, transl., A Scientist in Tartary: from the Hoang-ho to the Indus, London: Faber and Faber Limited, →OCLC, page...
   • Kjelsås (six miles) marks the end of the suburbs, and the line immediately plunges into Nordmarka. This vast untamed area of forest and mountain (much of it over 2,000 ft. above sea level), interspersed with innumerable lakes, large and small, is known as Oslo's playground.1955 July, M. D. Greville, “To the Valdres by Rail”, in Railway Magazine, pages 457-458