Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Impossible to measure; limitless. synonym: incalculable.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Incapable of being measured; immense; limitless; indefinitely extensive.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Incapable of being measured; indefinitely extensive; illimitable; immensurable; vast.
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- adjective
impossible tomeasure - adjective
vast - noun Anything that cannot be measured.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective impossible to measure
- adjective beyond calculation or measure
Etymologies
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Examples
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The engulf was a good place to breed insects, so fish were abundant, as good as which brought birds in immeasurable numbers.
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Mr. Friedman presented those benefaction with clever directions, in immeasurable font, to a Awbury Arboretum in Germantown, where we will gather during a Francis Cope House for a annual Birthday Dinner upon Apr 23.
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Mr. Friedman presented those benefaction with clever directions, in immeasurable font, to a Awbury Arboretum in Germantown, where we will gather during a Francis Cope House for a annual Birthday Dinner upon Apr 23.
Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia admin 2009
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The engulf was a good place to breed insects, so fish were abundant, as good as which brought birds in immeasurable numbers.
Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia admin 2009
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But he was also a friend and a mentor who helped my career in immeasurable ways.
Goodnight, Charles « 2009
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We had expected the grandeur and the beauty, and we were not surprised at the immense kindness and hospitality that we have met in immeasurable quality since we have been here.
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They all had immeasurable awareness, their awareness goes from inside their mind to infinity, thus the word immeasurable, you cannot ask itself how much immeasurable awareness they had, because it is totally immeasurable and incomparable.
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We've all paid for the clean up already hundreds of times over. first in outlandish profits to oil companies and now with the health risks and devastating short and long term immeasurable effects on the environment.
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It is difficult to estimate the magnitude of such power, as our only standard of measurement is the quantity of some other force, equally immeasurable, which is required to balance the first.
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The moon had risen in the east, and was shining from a deep dark-blue background, which conveyed the idea of immeasurable space, with a brilliancy which she seldom or never attains in our northern sky.
The Rival Heirs; being the Third and Last Chronicle of Aescendune 1863
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