count·less

(kount′lĭs)

adj.

Too many to be counted; innumerable. See Synonyms at incalculable.

count′less·ly adv.

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countless

(ˈkaʊntlɪs)

adj

innumerable; myriad

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count•less

(ˈkaʊnt lɪs)

adj.

too numerous to count; innumerable.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Adj.

countless - too numerous to be counted; "incalculable riches"; "countless hours"; "an infinite number of reasons"; "innumerable difficulties"; "the multitudinous seas"; "myriad stars"; "untold thousands"

innumerable, innumerous, multitudinous, myriad, numberless, uncounted, unnumberable, unnumbered, unnumerable, infinite

incalculable - not capable of being computed or enumerated

countless

adjective innumerable, legion, infinite, myriad, untold, limitless, incalculable, immeasurable, numberless, uncounted, multitudinous, endless, measureless She brought joy to countless people through her music.
limited, restricted, finite

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countless

adjective

Too great to be calculated:

immeasurable, incalculable, incomputable, inestimable, infinite, innumerable, measureless, uncountable.

Translations

لا يُعَد، لا يُحْصـى

nespočetný

utallig

unzählig zahllos

incontable innumerable

lukematon

innombrable

megszámlálhatatlanszámtalan

óteljandi

innumerevole

talløs

brezštevilen

pek çoksayısız

无计其数的

countless

[ˈkaʊntlɪs] ADJ → incontable, innumerable
on countless occasions → infinidad f de veces

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countless

[ˈkaʊntləs] adj (= innumerable) → innombrablecount noun n → nom m dénombrable

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

countless

adj → unzählig attr, → zahllos attr; countless millions of … → unzählige or zahllose Millionen von …

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

countless

[ˈkaʊntlɪs] adj on countless occasions → in mille occasioni, in innumerevoli occasioni
countless numbers of → un'infinità di

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count²

(kaunt) verb

1. to name the numbers up to. Count (up to) ten.

2. to calculate using numbers. Count (up) the number of pages; Count how many people there are; There were six people present, not counting the chairman.

3. to be important or have an effect or value. What he says doesn't count; All these essays count towards my final mark.

4. to consider. Count yourself lucky to be here.

noun

1. an act of numbering. They took a count of how many people attended.

2. a charge brought against a prisoner etc. She faces three counts of theft.

adjective

see countable.

ˈcountable adjective

1. capable of being numbered. Millionths of a second are countable only on very complicated instruments.

2. (negative uncountable. also count) (of a noun) capable of forming a plural and using the definite or indefinite article: Table is a count(able) noun, but milk is an uncountable noun.

ˈcounter noun

a token used in numbering or playing certain games; counters for playing ludo etc.

ˈcountless adjective

very many. Countless pebbles.

ˈcountdown noun

(used originally of a rocket) a counting backwards to check the time remaining until the beginning of an event, regarded as zero. It's five minutes to countdown.

count on

to rely on (a person or happening). I'm counting on you to persuade her.

out for the count

1. (of a boxer) still not standing after the count of ten.

2. exhausted; asleep. He was out for the count for several hours after his long walk.

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Twelve years had passed since his body had been found upon the bluff before his cottage overlooking the Hudson, and oft-times during these long years I had wondered if John Carter were really dead, or if he again roamed the dead sea bottoms of that dying planet; if he had returned to Barsoom to find that he had opened the frowning portals of the mighty atmosphere plant in time to save the countless millions who were dying of asphyxiation on that far-gone day that had seen him hurtled ruthlessly through forty-eight million miles of space back to Earth once more.

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Countless men have glimpsed that other and truer order of truth and recoiled from it.

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Of those that began great and ended in a point, there are thousands of examples, for all the Pharaohs and Ptolemies of Egypt, the Caesars of Rome, and the whole herd (if I may such a word to them) of countless princes, monarchs, lords, Medes, Assyrians, Persians, Greeks, and barbarians, all these lineages and lordships have ended in a point and come to nothing, they themselves as well as their founders, for it would be impossible now to find one of their descendants, and, even should we find one, it would be in some lowly and humble condition.

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Swinging back through the jungle in a wide circle the ape-man came to the river at another point, drank and took to the trees again and while he hunted, all oblivious of his past and careless of his future, there came through the dark jungles and the open, parklike places and across the wide meadows, where grazed the countless herbivora of the mysterious continent, a weird and terrible caravan in search of him.

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Countless heads were broken, and there were many killed.

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My knowledge of the efforts that had been made by countless expeditions to explore that unknown land bade me to caution, for never had flier returned who had passed to any considerable distance beyond the mighty ice-barrier that fringes the southern hem of the frigid zone.

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And had he needed further assurance as to the correctness of his theory he had only to cast his eyes upon the brownish-red stains that caked the stone altar and covered the floor in its immediate vicinity, or to the human skulls which grinned from countless niches in the towering walls.

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But what were the guineas to him who saw no vista beyond countless days of weaving?

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"We hear you, father!" they answered with one voice, and moved down the slope like a countless herd of game with horns of steel.

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For countless ages it had rolled up and down its countless miles of shore, and yet today it remained all unknown beyond the tiny strip that was visible from its beaches.

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With a frigate's anchors for my bridle-bitts and fasces of harpoons for spurs, would I could mount that whale and leap the topmost skies, to see whether the fabled heavens with all their countless tents really lie encamped beyond my mortal sight!

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Of all the wondrous devices and dexterities, the sleights of hand and countless subtleties, to which the veteran whaleman is so often forced, none exceed that fine manoeuvre with the lance called pitchpoling.

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