numberless

Examples

• All

• My sins are numberless, more in number than the hairs on my head.

  What Price Hollywood? (1932)

• And all around the tangled forest is the noise of numberless creatures.

  Enchanted Kingdom (2014)

• There was evidence here of numberless weeks of captivity by night and by day.

  Fiction book (1998)

• Sentient beings are numberless; I'll do the best I can to save them.

  Academic text (1994)

• Her silence cast a pall over the numberless projects absorbing his every waking hour.

  Fiction book (1991)

• It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth, in numberless blades of grass, and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers.

• And all around the tangled forest is the noise of numberless creatures.

• My sins are numberless, more in number than the hairs on my head.

Synonyms

N

numerous

vsnumberless

432 2.0

A large number of things or people

implies far greater, uncountable amount rather than just many

C

countless

vsnumberless

245 2.5

There are so many that you cannot say how many

carries identical sense but uses a different word choice

I

infinite

vsnumberless

183 4.2

Without limits or end

means uncountably many but adds the idea of limitless extent

U

untold

vsnumberless

52 4.8

A very large amount that cannot be counted or measured

shares the incalculable sense but lacks the strong poetic tone

M

myriad

vsnumberless

35 7.0

Very many, too many to count

is similar but stresses general countless amount rather than a number term

I

innumerable

vsnumberless

21 5.4

Too many to count

shares meaning exactly but is a different lexical form

E

endless

vsnumberless

19 2.5

Very large in number that seems to have no limit

emphasizes uncountable amount rather than ongoing extension

U

uncounted

vsnumberless

6 6.3

So many that you cannot say how many

has the same meaning but uses a different word form

M

multitudinous

vsnumberless

• Literature

2 7.9

Present in very large numbers

is about being too many to count rather than just great number

U

uncountable

vsnumberless

1 4.6

So many that you cannot count them one by one

focuses the same uncountability but not individual counting inability

U

unnumbered

vsnumberless

1 7.5

So many that you cannot count them

expresses the same idea but in another lexical shape

U

unnumerable

vsnumberless

7.9

Too many to count

means the same idea but with another word form

U

unnumberable

vsnumberless

7.8

So many that you cannot count them

has the same sense while differing only in word form

I

innumerous

vsnumberless

9.6

So many that you cannot count them

matches this meaning but appears as a different word form

Antonyms

C

countable

1 2.9

Present as separate things you can number, like an apple or a book

How Many

numberless

3 6.0

many

9 1.0

several

∞ 1.0

few

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology