COUNTLESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does countless mean? 

• COUNTLESS (adjective)
  The adjective COUNTLESS has 1 sense:

1. too numerous to be counted

  Familiarity information: COUNTLESS used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COUNTLESS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Too numerous to be counted

Synonyms:

countless; infinite; innumerable; innumerous; multitudinous; myriad; numberless; uncounted; unnumberable; unnumbered; unnumerable

Context example:

myriad stars

Similar:

incalculable (not able to be computed or enumerated)

Derivation:

countlessness (a number beyond counting)

 Context examples 

His forearms were black and blue from wrist to elbow, what of the countless blows he had warded off, and here and there the tortured flesh was beginning to fester.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Over their long histories, they've seen countless changes — warming and cooling cycles, wet and dry periods, altered biology and chemistry.

(Ancient lakes: eyes into the past, and the future, National Science Foundation)

Modern society, with its control of light, omnipresent technology and countless competing interests for time, along with the zeitgeist de-emphasizing sleep's importance, has resulted in the widespread deprioritization of sleep.

(Chronic Sleep Deprivation Suppresses Immune System, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The human genome sequence, published in 2003, has helped researchers identify countless genes involved in health and disease.

(Expanding Our Understanding of Genomics, NIH)

Here were many men, and countless dogs, and Buck found them all at work.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

They reassured him countless times; but he could not believe them, and pried cunningly about the lazarette to see with his own eyes.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Woven into her being was the memory of countless crimes he and his had perpetrated against her ancestry.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Remembering what it was—what countless systems there swept space like a soft trace of light—I felt the might and strength of God.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The walls seemed countless in number, endless in length; a village of hot-houses seemed to arise among them, and a whole parish to be at work within the enclosure.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

This reversal has happened countless times over Earth's history, but scientists' understanding of why and how the field reverses is limited.

(Earth's last magnetic field reversal took far longer than once thought, National Science Foundation)