Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Innumerable.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Without number; numberless; innumerable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Archaic Innumerable.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Not capable of being counted or numerated; indefinitely numerous.
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
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Examples
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My parents, Andrew and Dorothy Steuer, also contributed to this project in innumerous ways.
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"innumerous," and the rest of his bad English -- in spite of bombast, horrors, maundering, sheer stuff and nonsense of all kinds, there is
Literary and General Lectures and Essays Charles Kingsley 1847
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Only having to complete two more classes to graduate, I always thought my future in political sciences as wide open with innumerous possibilities; unfortunately this proved untrue.
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I guess that see it as more of a timewaster in that now you have something that can store innumerous games and apps and allow you do something other than solitaire or snake while you wait for your friend to show up and a tighter leash, i.e. you can do more things with it, kind of like a computer, but it takes a little longer.
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But the metaphor's worked well enough for innumerous editorial writers, from the Cold War to climate change.
The End is Near and it's Thanks to the Marketers K. Srikrishna 2010
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I'd have thought there would be innumerous sites out there!
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In the past three seasons of Friday Night Lights, Riggins has seduced the town sweetheart, dallied with a single mom, and encountered innumerous “rally girls.”
TV: Culture and Celebrity Scheyer, Kate 2009
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While individually one of these new light posts may only generate up to 380 watts of clean energy, if all the innumerous lamp posts were replaced with ones like these the combined effect could make a great difference.
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And there are innumerous examples for the coercion to provide the information which then is used against you by the government.
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There are innumerous examples of absolutes in the Bible†good and evil, right and wrong, heaven and hell, wise and foolish, friend and foe.
Think Progress » Malkin On Detainee Suicides: ‘Boo-Freakin-Hoo’ 2006
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