uncountable
/ʌnˈkaʊntəbl̩/
uncountable adjective: so many as to be incapable of being counted.
Adjective
uncountable (not comparable)
- So many as to be incapable of being counted.
- The reasons for our failure were as uncountable as the grains of sand on a beach.
- Mr. Chambre has since spent uncountable hours and even more uncountable dollars buying upward of 23,000 documents, and he figures to be just hitting speed.1988 July 13, Douglas Martin, “About New York; Tasting History Through Papers That Age Well”, in The New York Times
- Synonyms:
- countless, uncounted, numberless, innumerable, unnumberable, unnumbered, untold
- Antonyms:
- countable
- Incapable of being put into one-to-one correspondence with the natural numbers or any subset thereof.
- Cantor’s “diagonal proof” shows that the set of real numbers is uncountable.
- Antonyms:
- countable
- That cannot be used freely with numbers or the indefinite article, and therefore usually takes no plural form. Example: information.
- 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.
- Antonyms:
- countable
Noun
uncountable (plural uncountables)
- A noun that is uncountable.
- But inherent uncountables such as 'stuffs' can be conceptualized in two different ways, depending on whether they are viewed in terms of quantity or in terms of quality.1988, Anna Wierzbicka, The Semantics of Grammar, page 440
- Synonyms:
- mass noun, noncount noun, non-count noun, uncountable noun
- Antonyms:
- countable, count noun, countable noun
uncountable meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Indonesian
uncountable in Hindi
- too many to be counted
- अनगिनत anginat, अगणित agṇit, असंख्य asaṅkhya
- mathematics: incapable of being enumerated by natural numbers
- अगणित agṇit, अनगिनत anginat, असंख्य asaṅkhya
uncountable in Tamil
- எண்ணற்ற, எண்ணிக்கையற்ற, எண்ண முடியாத, எண்ணிறந்த, கணக்கிலடங்கா, எண்ணிட முடியாத
uncountable in Urdu
- uncountable
- لامتناہی lāmutanāhī
uncountable in Indonesian
- too many to be counted
- tak terhitung
- mathematics: incapable of being enumerated by natural numbers
- tak terhitung
- linguistics: about a noun which cannot be counted
- tak terhitung
More languagesFewer languages
- uncountable in Persian
- بیشمار bi-šomâr, شمارشناپذیر
Examples of uncountable in a sentence
- English doesn't have a singulative number in general, but many uncountable nouns have usual singulative constructions.
- (uncountable, by extension) The collection or mass of such outgrowths, filaments, or fibers growing or projecting from the surface of an object or organism.
- So it suffices to make sure that T has no maximal uncountable antichains.
Synonyms of uncountable
- countless
- uncounted
- numberless
- innumerable
- unnumberable
- unnumbered
- untold
- noncount
- non-count
- mass noun
3 more synonymsFewer synonyms
Antonyms
Forms of uncountable
| plural | uncountables |
|---|
Origin of uncountable
From un- + countable.
Words formed from uncountable
Phrases with uncountable
Questions about uncountable
- What does uncountable mean?
- Uncountable means so many as to be incapable of being counted.
- What is uncountable in Hindi?
- Uncountable in Hindi is अनगिनत (anginat), अगणित (agṇit), असंख्य (asaṅkhya). See Uncountable meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is uncountable?
- Uncountable can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce uncountable?
- Uncountable is pronounced /ʌnˈkaʊntəbl̩/.
Words near uncountable in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: uncountable (page history and authors); uncountable (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); لامتناہی (Urdu) (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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