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SUMLESS

Definition: SUMLESS

SUMLESS

Adjective

1. Not to be summed up or computed; so great that the amount can not be ascertained; incalculable; inestimable.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "SUMLESS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1599. (references)


Synonyms within Context: SUMLESS

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Infinity

Adjective: infinite; immense; numberless, countless, sumless, measureless; innumerable, immeasurable, incalculable, illimitable, inexhaustible, interminable, unfathomable, unapproachable; exhaustless, indefinite; without number, without measure, without limit, without end; incomprehensible; limitless, endless, boundless, termless; untold, unnumbered, unmeasured, unbounded, unlimited; illimited; perpetual.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Rhyming with "SUMLESS"

Words rhyming with "SUMLESS" (pronounced 'Sum"less'): Actless, Ageless, Aidless, Aimless, Airless, Aisless, Approachless, Armless, Artless, Assistless, Avoidless, Awless, Awnless, Backless, Badgeless, Barkless, Baseless, Bashless, Bateless, Beamless, Beardless, Birthless, Bitless, Blameless, Blissless, Bloodless, Bloomless, Blotless, Blushless, Boastless, Boneless, Bookless, Bootless, Boteless, Boundless, Bournless, Bowless, Bractless, Bragless, Brainless, Branchless, Breadless, Breadthless, Breathless, Breezeless, Bribeless, Bridgeless, Briefless, Brimless, Browless. (additional references)

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Anagrams: SUMLESS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: mussels.

Words within the letters "e-l-m-s-s-s-u"

-1 letter: mussel, musses.

-2 letters: mules, muses, slues, slums.

-3 letters: elms, emus, less, lues, lums, mels, mess, mule, muse, muss, sels, slue, slum, sues, sums, suss, uses.

-4 letters: elm, els, ems, emu, ess, leu, lum, mel, mus, sel, sue, sum, use.

-5 letters: el, em, es, me, mu, um, us.

 Words containing the letters "e-l-m-s-s-s-u"
 

+3 letters: almshouses, clumsiness, colosseums, glumnesses, mulishness, sensualism, subsamples.

 

+4 letters: emulousness, fulsomeness, lumpinesses, lumpishness, measureless, mousselines, musicalises, plumpnesses, secularisms, sensualisms, somersaults, subassembly, sublimeness, surrealisms.

 

+5 letters: clumsinesses, disseminules, dissimulates, exclusivisms, humblenesses, luminousness, manfulnesses, masculinises, mulishnesses, museologists, qualmishness, semilustrous, shamefulness, submersibles, submissively, summersaults, unseemliness.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: SUMLESS


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 55 4D 4C 45 53 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...    ..-    --    .-..    .    ...    ...

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01010101 01001101 01001100 01000101 01010011 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#85 &#77 &#76 &#69 &#83 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0055 004D 004C 0045 0053 0053

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

53554746395353

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Rhymes
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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