uncountably
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.34 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
Too many to be counted (either by reason of being infinite or for practical constraints).
adv
In an uncountable fashion.
adv
In a way that is incapable of being put into one-to-one correspondence with the natural numbers or any subset thereof.
Example Sentences
- "The stars in the sky are uncountably many. Even a lifetime would not suffice to number them all."
- "And the dimensions of death that can result from such systems tripped in error, or through misperceptions of reality, are uncountably greater than those"
- "a host of other producers fear that a vital link to New York's uncountably diverse populations is about to be cut."
- "And the memory of man runneth not to a year when there was an episode of disproportion comparable to the planet-wide vapors occasioned by one of the year's uncountably numerous automobile accidents, this one in Paris."
- "and the sheer quantity of material is uncountably greater"
- "Stories of road travel in the United States have taken uncountably many forms, from John Steinbeck's "Travels With Charley" and Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" to "Little Miss Sunshine"."
Etymology
From uncountable + -ly or un- + countably.