uncountable

About 0.17 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective So many as to be incapable of being counted.

   The reasons for our failure were as uncountable as the grains of sand on a beach.

2. adjective Incapable of being put into one-to-one correspondence with the natural numbers or any subset thereof.

   Cantor’s “diagonal proof” shows that the set of real numbers is uncountable.

3. adjective That cannot be used freely with numbers or the indefinite article, and therefore usually takes no plural form. Example: information.

   Many languages do not distinguish countable nouns from uncountable nouns.

4. noun A noun that is uncountable.

Similar words

numberless countless recountless incalculable supernumerous overnumerous innumerable multitudinous numerous numerose

Often followed by

number nouns numbers noun set and millions infinity sets