Adjective
uncountable (not comparable)
- So many as to be incapable of being counted.
- Synonyms: countless, numberless, innumerable; see also Thesaurus:innumerable
- Antonym: countable
The reasons for our failure were as uncountable as the grains of sand on a beach.
1988 July 13, Douglas Martin, “About New York; Tasting History Through Papers That Age Well”, in The New York Times:Mr. Chambre has since spent uncountable hours and even more uncountable dollars buying upward of 23,000 documents, and he figures to be just hitting speed.
- (mathematics) Incapable of being put into one-to-one correspondence with the natural numbers or any subset thereof.
- Antonym: countable
- Hypernym: infinite
Cantor’s “diagonal proof” shows that the set of real numbers is uncountable.
- (grammar, of a noun) That cannot be used freely with numbers or the indefinite article, and therefore usually takes no plural form. Example: information.
- Synonyms: noncount, non-count
- Antonym: countable
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.
Translations
too many to be counted
- Afrikaans: ontelbaar (af)
- Armenian: անհաշվելի (hy) (anhašveli)
- Bulgarian: неизброим (bg) (neizbroim)
- Danish: talrig, utællelig (da)
- Dutch: ontelbaar (nl)
- Estonian: loendamatu
- Finnish: lukematon (fi)
- French: indénombrable (fr) m or f
- Georgian: უთვალავი (utvalavi), ურიცხვი (uricxvi), აურაცხელი (auracxeli), უამრავი (uamravi)
- German: unzählig (de), zahllos (de), unzählbar (de)
- Hindi: बेशुमार (hi) (beśumār), अनगिनत (hi) (anginat), बेहिसाब (hi) (behisāb), अगणित (hi) (agṇit)
- Hungarian: számtalan (hu)
- Italian: innumerevole (it), incalcolabile (it)
- Japanese: 無数の (musū-no), 数えきれないほどの (kazoe kirenai hodo no)
- Latvian: neskaitāmi m pl, neskaitāmas f pl
- Macedonian: непреброив (neprebroiv)
- Norwegian:
- Norwegian Bokmål: utellelig (no)
- Norwegian Nynorsk: uteljeleg, uteljande (nn)
- Persian: بیشمار (bi-šomâr)
- Polish: niepoliczalny
- Portuguese: incontável (pt) m or f
- Romanian: nenumărabil (ro) m or n
- Russian: бессчётный (ru) (bessčótnyj), бесчи́сленный (ru) (besčíslennyj), неисчисли́мый (ru) (neisčislímyj)
- Slovene: neštet
- Spanish: incontable (es)
- Swedish: oräknelig (sv)
- Turkish: sayılamayan (tr)
- Welsh: anrhifadwy (cy), anghyfrifadwy
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mathematics: incapable of being enumerated by natural numbers
linguistics: about a noun which cannot be counted
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- Armenian: անհաշվելի (hy) (anhašveli)
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- Catalan: incomptable (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 不可數 / 不可数 (zh) (bùkěshǔ)
- Czech: nespočetný (cs)
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- Dutch: ontelbaar (nl)
- Estonian: loendamatu
- Finnish: luvuton (fi)
- French: indénombrable (fr) m or f
- Georgian: უთვლადი (utvladi)
- German: unzählbar (de)
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- Hungarian: megszámlálhatatlan (hu), nem számszerű
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- Italian: non numerabile (it), invariabile (it)
- Japanese: 不可算 (ja) (ふかさん, fukasan)
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- Latvian: vienskaitlinieks m
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- Norwegian:
- Norwegian Bokmål: utellelig (no)
- Norwegian Nynorsk: uteljeleg, uteljande (nn)
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- Persian: شمارشناپذیر
- Polish: niepoliczalny
- Portuguese: incontável (pt) m or f
- Romanian: nenumărabil (ro) m or n, inumerabil
- Russian: неисчисля́емый (neisčisljájemyj)
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- Slovene: nešteven
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- Spanish: incontable (es)
- Swedish: icke räknebar (sv), oräknebar (sv)
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- Turkish: sayılamaz (tr)
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- Welsh: anrhifadwy (cy), anghyfrifadwy
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