IMMEASURABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does immeasurable mean? 

• IMMEASURABLE (adjective)
  The adjective IMMEASURABLE has 2 senses:

1. impossible to measure

2. beyond calculation or measure

  Familiarity information: IMMEASURABLE used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMMEASURABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Impossible to measure

Synonyms:

immeasurable; immensurable; unmeasurable

Context example:

immeasurable suffering

Similar:

abysmal (very great; limitless)

illimitable; limitless; measureless; unmeasured (without limits in extent or size or quantity)

Antonym:

measurable (capable of being measured)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Beyond calculation or measure

Synonyms:

immeasurable; incomputable; inestimable

Context example:

immeasurable wealth

Similar:

incalculable (not able to be computed or enumerated)

 Context examples 

The wall, inside which he had thought himself, as suddenly leaped back before him to an immeasurable distance.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

For an immeasurable period, lapped in the rippling of placid centuries, I enjoyed and pondered my tremendous flight.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

They fought on, through exhaustion and beyond, to exhaustion immeasurable and inconceivable, until the crowd of brutes, its blood-lust sated, terrified by what it saw, begged them impartially to cease.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I might be driven into the wide Atlantic and feel all the tortures of starvation or be swallowed up in the immeasurable waters that roared and buffeted around me.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The two things clearest in my mind were, that a remoteness had come upon the old Blunderstone life—which seemed to lie in the haze of an immeasurable distance; and that a curtain had for ever fallen on my life at Murdstone and Grinby's.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Some of the scenes thus revealed were of immeasurable grandeur and of absorbing interest—the sea, running mountains high, threw skywards with each wave mighty masses of white foam, which the tempest seemed to snatch at and whirl away into space; here and there a fishing-boat, with a rag of sail, running madly for shelter before the blast; now and again the white wings of a storm-tossed sea-bird.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The Allens, Thorpes, and Morlands all met in the evening at the theatre; and, as Catherine and Isabella sat together, there was then an opportunity for the latter to utter some few of the many thousand things which had been collecting within her for communication in the immeasurable length of time which had divided them.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

My reflections were too undefined and fragmentary to merit record: I hardly yet knew where I was; Gateshead and my past life seemed floated away to an immeasurable distance; the present was vague and strange, and of the future I could form no conjecture.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)