countless

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Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?

Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm

Proto-Italic *kom

Proto-Italic *kom-

Latin con-

Latin putus

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.

Proto-Italic *-ājō

Proto-Italic *-āō

Latin -ō

Latin putō

Latin computō

Anglo-Norman counterbor.

Middle English counten

English count

Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-

Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.

Proto-Germanic *leusaną

Proto-Germanic *lausaz

Proto-Germanic *-lausaz

Proto-West Germanic *-laus

Old English -lēas

Middle English -les

English -less

English countless

From count + -less.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaʊntləs/

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: count‧less

Determiner

countless

1. (of a count noun) A huge and uncountable number of; too many to count; innumerable.

   Antonyms: a couple of, a few, a handful of, several; one; zero, no

   Hypernyms: many, numerous; multiple, various

   There are countless stars in the sky.

   • 2020, Pat Mann, 100 Life-Challenging Devotionals:

     He endured countless insults hurled at him before people finally respected him for his courage and his great ability as a baseball player.

Adjective

countless (not comparable)

1. Synonym of uncountable.

   The stars in the sky are countless.

2. (of a number) Too large to be counted to.
   • 2021, Baird T. Spalding, The Journey:

     Just stop and think deeply for a moment and realize the countless number of the grains of sand of the seashore; the countless number of drops of water that go to make up the waters of the earth; […]

Synonyms

• numberless, see also Thesaurus:innumerable or Thesaurus:incalculable

Derived terms

• countlessly
• countlessness

Translations

too many to count, innumerable

• Armenian: անթիվ (hy) (antʻiv), անհամար (hy) (anhamar)
• Bengali: বেশুমার (bn) (beśumar)
• Bulgarian: неизброим (bg) (neizbroim), безбро́ен (bg) (bezbróen)
• Catalan: innombrable
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 無數 / 无数 (zh) (wúshù)

• Czech: nesčetný (cs), nesčíslný (cs)
• Danish: utallig, talløs
• Dutch: ontelbaar (nl), talloos (nl)
• Esperanto: nekalkulebla, nenombrebla
• Finnish: lukematon (fi), rajaton (fi) (limitless)
• French: incalculable (fr), innombrable (fr), sans nombre (fr)
• Galician: incontable (gl), incontábel (gl)
• German: unzählig (de), unzählbar (de), zahllos (de)
• Greek: αμέτρητος (el) (amétritos), αναρίθμητος (el) m (anaríthmitos)

  Ancient Greek: ἀναρίθμητος (anaríthmētos), μῡρῐ́ος (mūrĭ́os)

• Gujarati: અગણિત (agaṇit)
• Hebrew: אין ספור (he) (ein sfor), אינספור
• Hindi: असंख्य (hi) (asaṅkhya), अनगिनत (hi) (anginat), अगणित (hi) (agṇit)
• Hungarian: számtalan (hu), megszámlálhatatlan (hu)
• Interlingua: innumerabile
• Italian: innumerevole (it), incalcolabile (it), innumerabile (it)
• Japanese: 無数な (ja) (むすうな, musū na), 無数の (ja) (むすうの, musū no), 数え切れない (ja) (かぞえきれない, kazoekirenai)
• Malayalam: എണ്ണമറ്റ (ml) (eṇṇamaṟṟa), അസംഖ്യം (asaṅkhyaṁ)
• Māori: makehua, tini makehua, tuauriuri, tini ngerongero
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: talløs, tallaus, utallig

  Nynorsk: tallaus

• Old English: unārīmedlīċ
• Pannonian Rusyn: безчислени (bezčisleni)
• Polish: niezliczony (pl), nieprzeliczony, nieprzebrany
• Portuguese: incontável (pt), inumerável (pt)
• Romanian: nenumărabil (ro), de nenumărat
• Russian: бессчётный (ru) (bessčótnyj), бесчи́сленный (ru) (besčíslennyj), неисчисли́мый (ru) (neisčislímyj), несчётный (ru) (nesčótnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: безбројан, без броја

  Latin: bezbrojan (sh), bez broja

• Spanish: incontable (es), innumerable (es), sin número, sinnúmero (es) m (noun)
• Swedish: otalig (sv)
• Tagalog: di mabilang-bilang
• Telugu: అగణితము (te) (agaṇitamu)
• Turkish: hesaplanamaz, hesapsız (tr), pek çok (tr), sayısız (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: حسابسز (hisabsız)

• Ukrainian: незліче́нний (nezličénnyj)
• Welsh: afrifed (cy), aneirif (cy), di-rif, dirifedi (cy), heb rifedi, llond gwlad o, rhif y blodau, rhif y graean, rhif y gwenith, rhif y gwlith, rhif y gwŷdd, rhif y sêr