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unnumerable

unnumerable is the obsolete form of innumerable.

Meaning of 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.
  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...

Forms of unnumerable

comparativemore unnumerable
superlativemost unnumerable

Origin of unnumerable

From un- + numerable.

Questions about unnumerable

What is unnumerable the obsolete form of?
Unnumerable is the obsolete form of innumerable.

Words near unnumerable in the dictionary

  1. unnumberable
  2. unnumberably
  3. unnumbered
  4. unnumbing
  5. unnumbs
  6. unnumerable
  7. unnumeraled
  8. unnumerical
  9. unnumerous
  10. unnun
  11. unnunned

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unnumerable (page history and authors); innumerable (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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