Meaning

3 senses
  1. (not comparable)Too many to be counted (either by reason of being infinite or for practical constraints).

    The stars in the sky are uncountably many. Even a lifetime would not suffice to number them all.

  2. (not comparable)In an uncountable fashion.

    Some nouns can be used both countably and uncountably.

  3. (not comparable)In a way that is incapable of being put into one-to-one correspondence with the natural numbers or any subset thereof.

Examples

1 sentences
  1. All natural objects and phenomena used to be considered as having kami, so the gods of Shinto were uncountably numerous.

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Origin

From uncountable + -ly or un- + countably.

From uncountable + -ly or un- + countably.

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See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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