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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Too numerous to be counted; numberless. synonym: incalculable.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • That cannot be counted; incapable of being enumerated or numbered for multitude; countless; hence, indefinitely, very numerous.
  • Not measurable by rhythmical numbers; unmusical; tuneless. [Rare.]
  • Synonyms Unnumbered, numberless, myriad.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Not capable of being counted, enumerated, or numbered, for multitude; countless; numberless; unnumbered, hence, indefinitely numerous; of great number.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Not capable of being counted, enumerated, or numbered, hence, indefinitely numerous; of great number.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective too numerous to be counted

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English, from Latin innumerābilis : in-, not; see in– + numerābilis, countable; see numerable.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

in- +‎ numerable; from French innumérable, from Latin innumerabilis, from in- +‎ numerabilis.

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