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So many as to be incapable of being counted.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Examples
- The reasons for our failure were as uncountable as the grains of sand on a beach.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: countless, uncounted, numberless, innumerable, uncountable, unnumberable, unnumbered, untold
Antonyms: countable
Incapable of being put into one-to-one correspondence with the natural numbers or any subset thereof.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Topics: mathematics, sciences
Examples
- Cantor’s “diagonal proof” shows that the set of real numbers is uncountable.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: countable
Broader terms: infinite
That cannot be used freely with numbers or the indefinite article, and therefore usually takes no plural form. Example: information.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Topics: grammar, human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
Examples
- Many languages do not distinguish countable nouns from uncountable nouns.
- One meaning in law of the usually uncountable noun "information" is used in the plural and is countable.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: noncount, non-count
Antonyms: countable
A noun that is uncountable.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: grammar, human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: mass noun, noncount noun, non-count noun, uncountable noun
Antonyms: countable, count noun, countable noun
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English countable English uncountable From un- + countable.