unnumerable
unnumerable is the obsolete form of innumerable.
Meaning of innumerable
Adjective
innumerable (comparative more innumerable, superlative most innumerable)
- Not capable of being counted, enumerated, or numbered.
- The casualties of the Second World War were so great that they are innumerable.
- 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
| comparative | more unnumerable |
|---|---|
| superlative | most 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
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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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