Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an incalculable degree or manner; immeasurably.
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- adverb In an
incalculable manner.
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Examples
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"incalculably" to the city's literary culture because he lives in Iowa City.
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"incalculably" to the city's literary culture because he lives in Iowa City.
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To-day, precisely charted, weighed, and measured, a thousand times larger than the world of Homer, it is become a tiny speck, gyrating to immutable law through a universe the bounds of which have been pushed incalculably back.
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This is so incalculably stupid that I can't even fathom proposing it.
My Tax System, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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His opinion would trump mine if he were somehow given the power of coercion, and the romantic would then gain the right to control access to this "incalculably valuable" resource.
Paul Schwennesen: Priceless: The Value of Nothing Paul Schwennesen 2012
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We are essentially still the same, however the principal difference is that we now have a debt incalculably more enormous — indeed, it would be more accurate to say that the debt has us, and has us by the throat.
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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From that perspective, I don't think Kling's plan is stupid at all, much less incalculably so.
My Tax System, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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His beard may be incalculably longer, and his friends – Kanye West and R Kelly among them – even harder to predict, yet in his recordings Oldham remains essentially unchanged; his voice remains a vulnerable instrument, and he's still writing music that's tuneful and quietly challenging.
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This is so incalculably stupid that I can't even fathom proposing it.
My Tax System, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Without our policies, things would be incalculably worse.
The Morning Plum Greg Sargent 2010
qroqqa commented on the word incalculably
She might have destroyed at a blow any influence he had ever had over Adrian, and, incalculably, she had refrained from doing it.
—Georgette Heyer, Faro's Daughter
A highly unusual use of this word. Normally it is an adjective modifier (e.g. incalculably high) and means "enormous, i.e. too large (or small) to be able to be calculated". But in this example Heyer has used it as a sentence adverb meaning "too puzzling to be able to calculate, i.e. understand, work out".
June 4, 2009