innumerable

From in- +‎ numerable; from Middle English innumerable, from Latin innumerābilis, from in- +‎ numerābilis.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ɪˈnuːməɹ.əbəl/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɪˈnjuːməɹ.əbəl/

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innumerable (comparative more innumerable, superlative most innumerable)

1. Not capable of being counted, enumerated, or numbered

   The casualties of the Second World War were so great that they are innumerable.

   • 1889, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, New York, N.Y.: Charles L. Webster & Company, →OCLC:

     Soon we could see the innumerable banners fluttering, and then the sun struck the sea of armor and set it all aflash.

2. Of a very high number; extremely numerous

• countless, numberless, unnumbered, untold; see also Thesaurus:innumerable

• “innumerable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Borrowed from Latin innumerābilis.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [in.nu.məˈɾab.blə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [in.nu.meˈɾa.ble]

innumerable m or f (masculine and feminine plural innumerables)

1. innumerable

   Synonym: innombrable

• “innumerable” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “innumerable”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “innumerable” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “innumerable” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Borrowed from Latin innumerābilis.

• IPA^(key): /innumeˈɾable/ [ĩn.nu.meˈɾa.β̞le]
• Rhymes: -able
• Syllabification: in‧nu‧me‧ra‧ble

innumerable m or f (masculine and feminine plural innumerables)

1. innumerable

• “innumerable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014