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countless

adj · det · 4 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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  • /ˈkaʊntləs/
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1

adj

Meaning 1

Synonym of uncountable.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

Examples

  • The stars in the sky are countless.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: uncountable

Antonyms: none provided

2

adj

Meaning 2

Too large to be counted to.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

det

Meaning 3

A huge and uncountable number of; too many to count; innumerable.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • There are countless stars in the sky.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: a couple of, a few, a handful of, several, one, zero, no

Broader terms: many, numerous, multiple, various

4

adjective satellite

Meaning 4

too numerous to be counted

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • incalculable riches
  • countless hours
  • an infinite number of reasons
  • innumerable difficulties
  • the multitudinous seas
  • myriad stars
  • untold thousands

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: infinite, innumerable, innumerous, multitudinous, myriad, numberless, uncounted, unnumberable, unnumbered, unnumerable

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Latin com- Latin putus Proto-Indo-European *-h2 Proto-Indo-European *-éh2 Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh2yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h2tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin putō Latin computō Anglo-Norman counterbor. Middle English counten English count Proto-Indo-European *lewh1- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English countless From count + -less.

Across languages

Translations

94 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Armenian: անթիվ (antʻiv) — too many to count, innumerable
  • Armenian: անհամար (anhamar) — too many to count, innumerable
  • Bengali: বেশুমার (beśumar) — too many to count, innumerable
  • Bulgarian: неизброим (neizbroim) — too many to count, innumerable
  • Bulgarian: безбро́ен (bezbróen) — too many to count, innumerable
  • Catalan: innombrable — too many to count, innumerable
  • Chinese Mandarin: 無數 /无数 (wúshù) — too many to count, innumerable
  • Czech: nesčetný — too many to count, innumerable
  • Czech: nesčíslný — too many to count, innumerable
  • Danish: utallig — too many to count, innumerable
  • Danish: talløs — too many to count, innumerable
  • Dutch: ontelbaar — too many to count, innumerable
  • Dutch: talloos — too many to count, innumerable
  • Esperanto: nekalkulebla — too many to count, innumerable
  • Esperanto: nenombrebla — too many to count, innumerable
  • Finnish: lukematon — too many to count, innumerable
  • Finnish: rajaton — too many to count, innumerable
  • French: incalculable — too many to count, innumerable
  • French: innombrable — too many to count, innumerable
  • French: sans nombre — too many to count, innumerable
  • Galician: incontable — too many to count, innumerable
  • Galician: incontábel — too many to count, innumerable
  • German: unzählig — too many to count, innumerable
  • German: unzählbar — too many to count, innumerable
  • German: zahllos — too many to count, innumerable
  • Greek: αμέτρητος (amétritos) — too many to count, innumerable
  • Greek: αναρίθμητος (anaríthmitos) — too many to count, innumerable
  • Ancient Greek: ἀναρίθμητος (anaríthmētos) — too many to count, innumerable
  • Gujarati: અગણિત (agaṇit) — too many to count, innumerable
  • Hebrew: אין ספור (ein sfor) — too many to count, innumerable
  • Hebrew: אינספור — too many to count, innumerable
  • Hindi: असंख्य (asaṅkhya) — too many to count, innumerable
  • Hindi: अनगिनत (anginat) — too many to count, innumerable
  • Hindi: अगणित (agṇit) — too many to count, innumerable
  • Hungarian: számtalan — too many to count, innumerable
  • Hungarian: megszámlálhatatlan — too many to count, innumerable
  • Interlingua: innumerabile — too many to count, innumerable
  • Italian: innumerevole — too many to count, innumerable
  • Italian: incalcolabile — too many to count, innumerable
  • Italian: innumerabile — too many to count, innumerable
  • Japanese: 無数な (musū na) — too many to count, innumerable
  • Japanese: 無数の (musū no) — too many to count, innumerable
  • Japanese: 数え切れない (kazoekirenai) — too many to count, innumerable
  • Malayalam: എണ്ണമറ്റ (eṇṇamaṟṟa) — too many to count, innumerable
  • Malayalam: അസംഖ്യം (asaṅkhyaṁ) — too many to count, innumerable
  • Māori: makehua — too many to count, innumerable
  • Māori: tini makehua — too many to count, innumerable
  • Māori: tuauriuri — too many to count, innumerable
  • Māori: tini ngerongero — too many to count, innumerable
  • Norwegian Bokmål: talløs — too many to count, innumerable
  • Norwegian Bokmål: tallaus — too many to count, innumerable
  • Norwegian Bokmål: utallig — too many to count, innumerable
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: tallaus — too many to count, innumerable
  • Old English: unārīmedlīċ — too many to count, innumerable
  • Polish: niezliczony — too many to count, innumerable
  • Polish: nieprzeliczony — too many to count, innumerable
  • Polish: nieprzebrany — too many to count, innumerable
  • Portuguese: incontável — too many to count, innumerable
  • Portuguese: inumerável — too many to count, innumerable
  • Romanian: nenumărabil — too many to count, innumerable
  • Romanian: de nenumărat — too many to count, innumerable
  • Russian: бессчётный (bessčótnyj) — too many to count, innumerable
  • Russian: бесчи́сленный (besčíslennyj) — too many to count, innumerable
  • Russian: неисчисли́мый (neisčislímyj) — too many to count, innumerable
  • Russian: несчётный (nesčótnyj) — too many to count, innumerable
  • Serbo-Croatian: безбројан — too many to count, innumerable
  • Serbo-Croatian: без броја — too many to count, innumerable
  • Serbo-Croatian: bezbrojan — too many to count, innumerable
  • Serbo-Croatian: bez broja — too many to count, innumerable
  • Spanish: incontable — too many to count, innumerable
  • Spanish: innumerable — too many to count, innumerable
  • Spanish: sin número — too many to count, innumerable
  • Spanish: sinnúmero — too many to count, innumerable
  • Swedish: otalig — too many to count, innumerable
  • Tagalog: di mabilang-bilang — too many to count, innumerable
  • Telugu: అగణితము (agaṇitamu) — too many to count, innumerable
  • Turkish: hesaplanamaz — too many to count, innumerable
  • Turkish: hesapsız — too many to count, innumerable
  • Turkish: pek çok — too many to count, innumerable
  • Turkish: sayısız — too many to count, innumerable
  • Ottoman Turkish: حسابسز (hisabsız) — too many to count, innumerable
  • Ukrainian: незліче́нний (nezličénnyj) — too many to count, innumerable
  • Welsh: afrifed — too many to count, innumerable
  • Welsh: aneirif — too many to count, innumerable
  • Welsh: di-rif — too many to count, innumerable
  • Welsh: dirifedi — too many to count, innumerable
  • Welsh: heb rifedi — too many to count, innumerable
  • Welsh: llond gwlad o — too many to count, innumerable
  • Welsh: rhif y blodau — too many to count, innumerable
  • Welsh: rhif y graean — too many to count, innumerable
  • Welsh: rhif y gwenith — too many to count, innumerable
  • Welsh: rhif y gwlith — too many to count, innumerable
  • Welsh: rhif y gwŷdd — too many to count, innumerable
  • Welsh: rhif y sêr — too many to count, innumerable
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