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English
Etymology
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Italic *-ājō English uncountable From un- + countable.
Pronunciation
Adjective
uncountable (not comparable)
- So many as to be incapable of being counted.
- Synonyms: countless, uncounted, numberless, innumerable; see also Thesaurus:innumerable
- Antonym: countable
The reasons for our failure were as uncountable as the grains of sand on a beach.
1988 July 13, Douglas Martin, “About New York; Tasting History Through Papers That Age Well”, in The New York Times[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 March 2025:Mr. Chambre has since spent uncountable hours and even more uncountable dollars buying upward of 23,000 documents, and he figures to be just hitting speed.
- (mathematics) Incapable of being put into one-to-one correspondence with the natural numbers or any subset thereof.
- Antonym: countable
- Hypernym: infinite
Cantor’s “diagonal proof” shows that the set of real numbers is uncountable.
- (grammar, of a noun) That cannot be used freely with numbers or the indefinite article, and therefore usually takes no plural form. Example: information.
- Synonyms: noncount, non-count
- Antonym: countable
Many languages do not distinguish countable nouns from uncountable nouns. One meaning in law of the usually uncountable noun "information" is used in the plural and is countable.
Derived terms
Translations
too many to be counted
- Afrikaans: ontelbaar (af)
- Armenian: անհաշվելի (hy) (anhašveli)
- Bulgarian: неизброим (bg) (neizbroim)
- Danish: talrig, utællelig (da)
- Dutch: ontelbaar (nl)
- Estonian: loendamatu
- Finnish: lukematon (fi)
- French: indénombrable (fr) m or f
- Georgian: უთვალავი (utvalavi), ურიცხვი (uricxvi), აურაცხელი (auracxeli), უამრავი (uamravi)
- German: unzählig (de), zahllos (de), unzählbar (de)
- Hindi: अनगिनत (hi) (anginat), अगणित (hi) (agṇit), असंख्य (hi) (asaṅkhya)
- Hungarian: számtalan (hu)
- Indonesian: tak terhitung
- Italian: innumerevole (it), incalcolabile (it)
- Japanese: 無数の (musū-no), 数えきれないほどの (kazoe kirenai hodo no)
- Latvian: neskaitāmi m pl, neskaitāmas f pl
- Macedonian: непреброив (neprebroiv)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: utellelig (no)
- Nynorsk: uteljeleg, uteljande (nn)
- Persian: بیشمار (bi-šomâr)
- Polish: niepoliczalny
- Portuguese: incontável (pt) m or f
- Romanian: nenumărabil (ro) m or n
- Russian: бессчётный (ru) (bessčótnyj), бесчи́сленный (ru) (besčíslennyj), неисчисли́мый (ru) (neisčislímyj)
- Slovene: neštet
- Spanish: incontable (es)
- Swedish: oräknelig (sv)
- Turkish: sayılamayan (tr)
- Welsh: anrhifadwy (cy), anghyfrifadwy
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mathematics: incapable of being enumerated by natural numbers linguistics: about a noun which cannot be counted
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- Armenian: անհաշվելի (hy) (anhašveli)
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- Bulgarian: неброим (nebroim)
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- Catalan: incomptable (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 不可數 / 不可数 (zh) (bùkěshǔ)
- Czech: nespočetný (cs)
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- Dutch: ontelbaar (nl)
- Estonian: loendamatu
- Finnish: luvuton (fi)
- French: indénombrable (fr) m or f
- Georgian: უთვლადი (utvladi)
- German: unzählbar (de)
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- Hungarian: megszámlálhatatlan (hu), nem számszerű
- Indonesian: tak terhitung
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- Italian: non numerabile (it), invariabile (it)
- Japanese: 不可算 (ja) (ふかさん, fukasan)
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- Latvian: vienskaitlinieks m
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- Bokmål: utellelig (no)
- Nynorsk: uteljeleg, uteljande (nn)
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- Persian: شمارشناپذیر
- Polish: niepoliczalny
- Portuguese: incontável (pt) m or f
- Romanian: nenumărabil (ro) m or n, inumerabil
- Russian: неисчисля́емый (neisčisljájemyj)
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- Slovene: nešteven
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- Spanish: incontable (es)
- Swedish: icke räknebar (sv), oräknebar (sv)
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- Welsh: anrhifadwy (cy), anghyfrifadwy
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Noun
uncountable (plural uncountables)
- (grammar) A noun that is uncountable.
- Synonyms: mass noun, noncount noun, non-count noun, uncountable noun
- Antonyms: countable, count noun, countable noun
1988, Anna Wierzbicka, The Semantics of Grammar, page 440:But inherent uncountables such as 'stuffs' can be conceptualized in two different ways, depending on whether they are viewed in terms of quantity or in terms of quality.
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