uncounted
/ˌʌnkˈaʊntɪd/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.17 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not counted.
adj
Very numerous.
verb
simple past and past participle of uncount
Example Sentences
- "This pile was counted yesterday. Those piles over there are still uncounted."
- "Perhaps somewhere among the uncounted stars in the sky there might be lurking a distant planet eerily similar to our own."
- "Rumour is a pipe, / Blowne by ſurmizes, / Iealouſies[,] coniectures, / And of ſo eaſie, and ſo plaine a ſtop, / That the blunt monſter, with vncounted heads, / The ſtill diſcordant wau’ring multitude, / Can play vpon it."
- "[…] under proper control and with an intelligent system of recess-and-noon-period-recreation the child can have uncounted good times, while with too stern a discipline or too lax a facile subjection of the teasesome and bully types and too little attention to promoting harmonious play, the grade school years may be made an unpleasant period of life."
- "The Invisible Killer Dihydrogen monoxide is colorless, odorless, tasteless, and kills uncounted thousands of people every year. Most of these deaths are caused by accidental inhalation of DHMO, but the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide do not end there."
- "Around the same time, nationally syndicated journalist Robert Walters was reporting that ‘many members of Congress refuse to even acknowledge the fact that uncounted thousands of jobs in the auto, steel and other traditional “smokestack” industries have been irretrievably lost while employment opportunities in high technology fields are becoming available at an accelerating rate[…]"
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: uncountit