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UNNUMBERED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does unnumbered mean?
• UNNUMBERED (adjective)
The adjective UNNUMBERED has 1 sense:
1. too numerous to be counted
Familiarity information: UNNUMBERED 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
It was invested with the woe of unnumbered generations, this plaint by which Buck was so strangely stirred.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
And now vegetation matured with vigour; Lowood shook loose its tresses; it became all green, all flowery; its great elm, ash, and oak skeletons were restored to majestic life; woodland plants sprang up profusely in its recesses; unnumbered varieties of moss filled its hollows, and it made a strange ground-sunshine out of the wealth of its wild primrose plants: I have seen their pale gold gleam in overshadowed spots like scatterings of the sweetest lustre.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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