INNUMERABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does innumerable mean? 

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

1. too numerous to be counted

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• INNUMERABLE (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:

innumerableness (a number beyond counting)

 Context examples 

Look also at the innumerable fish that are swimming in the clear waters, where we can distinguish every pebble that lies at the bottom.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Likewise he learned to romp with the master, to be tumbled down and rolled over, and be the victim of innumerable rough tricks.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Soft, seedy biscuits, also, I bestow upon Miss Shepherd; and oranges innumerable.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I answered “they were innumerable; but I should only mention a few of the chief.”

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

It was after supper, in his own sanctum—the room of the pink radiance and the innumerable trophies—that Lord John Roxton had something to say to us.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I would have everything as complete as possible in the country, shrubberies and flower-gardens, and rustic seats innumerable: but it must all be done without my care.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

And then his hat sat so well, and the innumerable capes of his greatcoat looked so becomingly important!

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

He would have had a wife of whose temper he could make no complaint, but he would have been always necessitous—always poor; and probably would soon have learned to rank the innumerable comforts of a clear estate and good income as of far more importance, even to domestic happiness, than the mere temper of a wife.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

The ship was talking, as sailors say, loudly, treading the innumerable ripples with an incessant weltering splash; and until I got my eye above the window-sill I could not comprehend why the watchmen had taken no alarm.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

It was a very large chamber, lined with innumerable volumes, which had overflowed from the shelves and lay in piles in the corners, or were stacked all round at the base of the cases.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)