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NUMBERLESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does numberless mean?
• NUMBERLESS (adjective)
The adjective NUMBERLESS has 1 sense:
1. too numerous to be counted
Familiarity information: NUMBERLESS used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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)
Context examples
He multiplied his questions, and sifted me thoroughly upon every part of this head, proposing numberless inquiries and objections, which I think it not prudent or convenient to repeat.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
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