unnumbered
- adjective
- /ʌnˈnʌmbərd/
- OBS.MOPP contains observations of unnumbered asteroids for which reliable orbits have been published in the circulars.
Examples
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Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered...
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It has been a year, and I still cannot forget the scene of the unnumbered bodies on the TV screen. They said there were 120 people; no, wait a second, the number is still increasing. They have probably reached a number of 130 or 135, with no space for mourning them and honoring their names. They all were gone in 2 minutes, and war broke out.
Blog text (31) -
The Moments now go unnumbered.
Fiction book (1995) -
Out yonder the ocean, how great and how wide, where small and great creatures unnumbered abide!
Blog text (20) -
OBS.CMT1 and OBS.CMT2 handle unnumbered comets.
Academic text (1996) -
Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered... I have fought my way here to the castle beyond the Goblin City.
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"Through dangers untold... and hardships unnumbered... I fought my way here to the castle... beyond the Goblin City... to take back the child that you have stolen."
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Through dangers untold... and hardships unnumbered... I have fought my way here to the castle... beyond the Goblin City... to take back the child... that you have stolen.
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I am put in mind of Pope's description of Belinda's dressing table in The Rape of the Lock: "Unnumbered treasures ope at once, and here / The various offerings of the world appear."
Academic text (1995) -
The library contained unnumbered volumes of ancient texts, each offering endless knowledge.
Synonyms
A large number of things or people
There are so many that you cannot say how many
Without limits or end
A very large amount that cannot be counted or measured
Very many, too many to count
Very large in number that seems to have no limit
Too great to measure or count
Present in very large numbers
So many that you cannot count them one by one
Antonyms
How Many
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Unnumbered comes from the prefix un- meaning 'not' and number meaning 'to count'. So unnumbered literally means 'not counted', which is why we use it for things that are too many to be counted.