innumerable

From in- +‎ numerable; from Middle English innumerable, from Latin innumerābilis, from in- +‎ numerābilis.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ɪˈnuːməɹ.əbəl/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɪˈnjuːməɹ.əbəl/

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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.

   • 1889, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, New York, N.Y.: Charles L. Webster & Company, →OCLC:

     Soon we could see the innumerable banners fluttering, and then the sun struck the sea of armor and set it all aflash.

2. Of a very high number; extremely numerous.
   • 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 211:

     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 orongo, mainly females, with innumerable young. The landscape looked highly unpromising for agriculture yet I noticed that the folk of Bulaq Bashi planted grain. Four hours’ marching took us to within sight of Issik Pakhta Nor, which the maps also record as Khon Qum Nor.

   • 1955 July, M. D. Greville, “To the Valdres by Rail”, in Railway Magazine, pages 457-458:

     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.

• countless, numberless, unnumbered, untold; see also Thesaurus:innumerable

• “innumerable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Borrowed from Latin innumerābilis.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

innumerable m or f (masculine and feminine plural innumerables)

1. innumerable

   Synonym: innombrable

• “innumerable”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], 2007 April
• “innumerable”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “innumerable” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “innumerable” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Borrowed from Latin innumerābilis.

• IPA^(key): /innumeˈɾable/
• Rhymes: -able
• Syllabification: in‧nu‧me‧ra‧ble

innumerable m or f (masculine and feminine plural innumerables)

1. innumerable

• “innumerable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10