Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Too great to be measured; immeasurable: synonym: incalculable.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Without measure; unlimited; immeasurable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Without measure; unlimited; immeasurable.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Not
measured because it is so large it is difficult or impossible to do so.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective without limits in extent or size or quantity
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Examples
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As I sat in measureless content by the little flower bed, carefully slipping my pretty Bon Silenes and Catherine Mermets and yellow Sunsets and the rest out of their pots, and gently firming them in the ground, with plenty of water for refreshment, a cloud of the most delicious perfume brooded about me from a bed of white violets at the left, the hardiest, faithfulest, friendliest little flowers in the world.
An Island Garden 1894
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... the nightmare corpse-city of R'lyeh ... was built in measureless aeons behind history by the vast, loathsome shapes that seeped down from the dark stars.
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn Lou Anders 2007
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... the nightmare corpse-city of R'lyeh ... was built in measureless aeons behind history by the vast, loathsome shapes that seeped down from the dark stars.
Archive 2007-12-01 Lou Anders 2007
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Behold the fields and caves, the measureless caverns of memory, immeasurably full of immeasurable things...
The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011
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This upload is our mightiest metaphor for the merrymaking of the measureless mediocrity that makes up the 21st century.
Cody Brotter: Generation Friday: How Rebecca Black Gave Millennial Kids Their Label Cody Brotter 2011
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The outside world shrank down to the space of the secluded grotto, the powerful, stern-faced man in front of her, the measureless depths of his stare.
Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011
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In Jeremiah 33:22, it says, “as countless as the stars of the sky and as measureless as the sand of the seashore.”
Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011
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Behold the fields and caves, the measureless caverns of memory, immeasurably full of immeasurable things...
The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011
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In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure dome decree Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea … EDF, of course, was engaged in that characteristically twenty-first century French endeavour, the development of nuclear power.
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This upload is our mightiest metaphor for the merrymaking of the measureless mediocrity that makes up the 21st century.
Cody Brotter: Generation Friday: How Rebecca Black Gave Millennial Kids Their Label Cody Brotter 2011
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