Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Impossible to calculate.
- adjective Too great to be calculated or reckoned.
- adjective Impossible to foresee; unpredictable.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not calculable; incapable of being calculated or reckoned; indeterminable by calculation.
- Not to be reckoned upon; that cannot be forecast.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not capable of being calculated; beyond calculation; very great.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective not comparable Very
great ornumerous . - adjective not comparable, mathematics Impossible to
calculate . - adjective comparable Of a person's mood or character, etc.: Impossible to
predict .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not capable of being computed or enumerated
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Examples
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Any stigma that results from disclosing risks so complex as to be incalculable is appropriate.
Time for Bailout Transparency Matthew Winkler 2010
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Its influence, though incalculable, is not in the slightest danger of being exaggerated.
Unprintable 1969
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Its influence, though incalculable, is not in the slightest danger of being exaggerated.
Unprintable 1923
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The value of all this free promotion is incalculable, which is no doubt why so many Republicans are using politics as merely a way to cash in big time as nothing more than entertainers.
Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points -- Weiner Roast Chris Weigant 2011
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The value of all this free promotion is incalculable, which is no doubt why so many Republicans are using politics as merely a way to cash in big time as nothing more than entertainers.
Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points -- Weiner Roast Chris Weigant 2011
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The amount of damage that this sort of thinking has had on gay people has been incalculable, which is exactly why so many gay people are find any religion so suspect.
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THE number of sins a person may commit is well-nigh incalculable, which is only one way of saying that the malice of man has invented innumerable means of offending the Almighty -- a compliment to our ingenuity and the refinement of our natural perversity.
Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals
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Roi Faineant, King Donothing; but with the strangest new Mayor of the Palace: no bow-legged Pepin now, but that same cloud-capt, fire-breathing Spectre of DEMOCRACY; incalculable, which is enveloping the world!
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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The impact of the bank's crash has been described as incalculable by some economists after governments around the world were forced to implement trillion-pound bailouts for their own banks caught up in the disaster.
The Guardian World News Phillip Inman 2010
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