incalculable
- adjective
- /ɪnˈkælkjʊləbəl/
- Her kindness to the community has had incalculable effects, creating a legacy that will last for years.
- incalculable damage
It's it's one of these sort of incalculable losses.
- It's it's one of these sort of incalculable losses.
- The chances of this happening are incalculable.
- It's like the economic value that is incalculable.
- These are just like just incalculable tragedies that we, we can't even, you know, understand.
- Roundup They've done incalculable damage to democracy.
- But the lenders never envisaged this kind of risk, and the consequences for the economy are incalculable.
- And so the consequences, it says we're incalculable.
Examples
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The impact of climate change on future generations is incalculable, making it essential for us to take action today.
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A successful test of a faster-than-light propulsion system would have incalculable significance for the human race.
Fiction book (2001) -
The loss of life out here is incalculable and...
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The loss to science has been, uh, incalculable.
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Destructive conflicts resulted in incalculable loss of human and material resources.
Academic text (1992) -
If you had any idea this was coming and you withheld it, your life goals, should you have any, would suffer incalculable damage.
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Especially when that bullying results in an incalculable amount of injustice and human suffering.
Blog text (1) -
I have to warn the Soviets in the clearest possible terms that they risk taking us to the brink of an armed confrontation with incalculable consequences for all mankind.
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The contributions of scientists throughout history have had an incalculable influence on modern technology.
Synonyms
Very large in size, amount, or effect
Without limits or end
Very large in size, amount, or degree
So strange or large that people cannot believe it
A very large amount that cannot be counted or measured
Very large and without any end
Having no limit in size or amount
Very large in number that seems to have no limit
So large or great you cannot say how big
Not limited in amount or size
So great that you cannot measure its value
Too large or without clear limits to say how big it is
Impossible to measure or show with a number
Very large in size or number with no clear limit
Hard to predict or measure exactly
An amount or space that has no end and cannot be measured
Too great to measure
So many that you cannot count them
Antonyms
How Measurable
Surface Forms
Morphology
incalculable = calculable (transparent) = in + calcul + able
The negative prefix 'in-' combines regularly with 'calculable' to mean 'not able to be calculated'.
Etymology
Incalculable begins with in- 'not' and comes from the same word as calculate, which traces back to Latin calculus 'small stone' because people once used little stones to count. So incalculable means 'not able to be counted' and is used for things too great or too many to measure.