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Definition: Countless |
CountlessAdjective1. Too numerous to be counted; "incalculable riches"; "countless hours"; "an infinite number of reasons"; "innumerable difficulties"; "the multitudinous seas"; "myriad stars"; "untold thousands". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "countless" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Synonyms: CountlessSynonyms: infinite (adj), innumerable (adj), innumerous (adj), multitudinous (adj), myriad(a) (adj), numberless (adj), uncounted (adj), unnumberable (adj), unnumbered (adj), unnumerable (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: Countless |
| English words defined with "countless": Myriophyllous ♦ Oophore. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "countless": Ferohers ♦ Parisian Wedding ♦ quails. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "countless": Hypermyriorama. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | So it was with the little people of Japan, little as I am now, because for countless generations we have not been able to produce the food to make us bigger. (Conquest of Space; writing credit: Chesley Bonestell; Willy Ley) Professor Dumbledore has granted me permission to start this little dueling club, to train you all up, in case you ever need to protect yourself, as I myself have done on countless occasions. (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets; writing credit: Steven Kloves) | |
Lyrics | After killing Jason off and countless screaming Argonauts (Birdhouse in Your Soul; performing artist: They Might Be Giants) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Countless Count (1914) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Production. Tin smelting. A new furnace building under construction at a Southern tin smelter. Pure tin will be produced here from South American ore to meet the countless war needs of the United Nations. This smelting operation, the first of its magnitud. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Alexander Pope | Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise! |
Blaise Pascal | The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways. |
George W. Cecil | On the Plains of Hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, at the Dawn of Victory, sat down to wait, and waiting -- died! |
Virgil | Had I a hundred tongues, a hundred lips, a throat of iron and a chest of brass, I could not tell nen's countless sufferings. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | To give security to these countless homes, they must be shielded from the two giant marauders, war and tyranny. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | The refrigeration portion of the domestic air-conditioning and refrigeration market is currently being strengthened by countless modernization projects. (references) | |
The U.K. market offers over 200 brands of vitamins alone and countless ranges of mineral, herbal, and other nutritional supplements, making product positioning imperative. (references) | ||
Beside the large number of Spanish firms that have been rapidly entering the Argentine market, there are countless foreign companies just now seeing that Argentina is a good place to invest. (references) | ||
Economic History | Angola | Other rich resources await development: gold, forest products, fisheries, iron ore, coffee, and countless fruits. (references) |
Costa Rica | There are five large department store chains, six supermarket chains and countless small and medium-sized family owned firms that compete with the larger retailers. (references) | |
Travel | Taiwan | In countless large and small restaurants, specialties from almost every region can be found. (references) |
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Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | Delicate and intricate relationships, involving us all in countless ways, must be carefully considered. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | As I look around this gathering, I am filled with countless warm and fond memories. |
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| "Countless" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.69% of the time. "Countless" is used about 645 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 99.69% | 643 | 10,143 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.15% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (plural) | 0.15% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 645 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
achieve balance can company countless help its life that there ways work workforce | 3 |
countless functionally illiterate may person reason there why | 2 |
200 countless filled lake stream there trout | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "countless"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i panumërt (innumerable, myriad, numberless). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | لا يحصى (incalculable, uncounted), لا يعد (numberless, uncounted), بدون عدد. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | неизчислим (incalculable, incomputable, inestimable), неизброим (incalculable, incomputable, myriad, uncountable, uncounted, unnurtured), безброен (innumerable, numberless). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 無數 (innumerable, numberless), 數不盡 , 數不清 , 不计其数, 不計其數 (innumerable), 不可勝數 (innumerable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | nespoèetný (innumerable, numberless, untold). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | ontelbaar. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | sennombra, nenombrebla. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | بیشمار (Myriad, Populous, Umpteen, Umpteenth). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | lukematon (innumerable, untold). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | incalculable. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | zahllos (countlessly, innumerable, numberless, unnumbered, untold), ungezählt (uncounted, untold). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αναρίθμητοσ (innumerable, unnumbered, without number), αμέτρητοσ (innumerable, not counted, uncountable, uncounted, unmeasured). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לאין ספור (untold), בלתי ספור. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | számtalan (innumerable, multitudinous, numberless, uncountable, uncounted, without number). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | innumerevole (innumerable, multitudinous, myriad, numberless, numerous, umpteen, untold). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 数え切れない (incalculable), 多数 (great number, majority). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | たすう (great number, majority), かぞえきれない (incalculable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 무수한 (innumerable, unnumbered). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | gyn earroo (myriad, numberless). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Papiamen | inkontabel. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ountlesscay incontável (uncountable, untold). (various references) nenumãrat (innumerable, numberless, out of number, untold), incalculabil (incalculable, inestimable, invaluable, untold). (various references) несчетный (uncountable, uncounted, untold), бесчисленный (endless, incomputable, innumerable, myriad, numberless, umpteen, uncountable, uncounted, unnumbered). (various references) mùr (a wall, countless number). (various references) nebrojen (uncounted, unnumbered), bezbrojan (innumerable, multitudinous, myriad, numberless, uncountable, uncounted). (various references) sinnúmero, incontable (incalculable, innumerable, unnumbered). (various references) otalig (incalculable, incomputable, innumerable, numerousless, uncountable, uncounted, unnumbered). (various references) sayısız (beyond number, indefinite, infinite, innumerable, limitless, myriad, no end, no end of, numberless, numerous, umpteen, umpteenth, umptieth, uncounted, unnumbered, untold), çok (a great number of, a lot, a whale of, a whale of a lot, abounding, abundant, acres and acres, affluent, ample, awfully, badly, big, bloody, damned, darned, dead, deadly, deeply, enormously, ever so, exuberant, fair, fantastically, galore, good, greatly, heaps of, heartily, hearty, heavily, heavy, hell, hell of, helluva, highly, innumerable, jolly, largely, lavish, like hell, loads of, lot, lots of, many, molto, more, much, multi-, multitudinous, numerous, over, piping, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, plenty of, poly-, precious, pretty, prodigal, profuse, rank, rattling, revoltingly, sadly, so, some, sorely, spanking, strongly, such, thundering, tidy, too, umpteen, umpteenth, umptieth, vast, vastly, very, well, whaling, whopping). (various references) незлічений. (various references) vô số (fifty, innumerable, innumerous, legion, lot, multiplicity, multitudinous, quantity, uncountable), vô kể (umpteen, uncountable, unlimited, unnumbered), không đếm xuể (incalculable). (various references) amnifer (host, odd number, unequal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | innumera, innumerabile, innumerabilem, innumerabiles, innumerabili, innumerabilia, innumerabilibus, innumerabilis, innumerabilium, innumeri, innumeris, innumerus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "countless": countlessly. (additional references) | |
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"Countless" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bountless, countessa, countlessly, dountless. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "countless" (pronounced kou"ntlus) |
| 5 | -n t l u s | pointless, relentless, warrantless. |
| 4 | -t l u s | atlas, cutlass, doubtless, ductless, effortless, flightless, fruitless, guiltless, heartless, limitless, listless, meatless, pilotless, restless, rootless, shiftless, spotless, stateless, tasteless, thoughtless, ticketless, weightless, witless. |
| 3 | -l u s | accomplice, acropolis, ageless, aimless, airless, Amaryllis, anomalous, bacillus, backless, balas, baseless, blameless, bloodless, bolus, boneless, bottomless, boundless, brainless, breathless, calculus, callous, callus, careless, Carolus, cashless, ceaseless, childless, classless, cloudless, clueless, Colas, colorless, cordless, defenseless, digitalis, directionless, driverless, earless, endless, expressionless, eyeless, fabulous, faceless, fatherless, fearless, featherless, featureless, feckless, fellas, fenceless, flawless, frictionless, frivolous, Gallus, garrulous, gladiolus, godless, graceless, groundless, guileless, hairless, hapless, harmless, headless, helpless, homeless, hopeless, hornless, humorless, incredulous, irregardless, issueless, jealous, jobless, keyless, lactobacillus, landless, lawless, leaderless, leafless, legless, libelous, lifeless, limbless, loveless, luckless, malice, marvelous, meaningless, megalopolis, merciless, meticulous, metropolis, mindless, miraculous, motherless, motionless, nameless, nautilus, nebulous, necklace, necropolis, needless, odorless, overzealous, Oxalis, painless, palace, paperless, peerless, pendulous, penniless, perilous, pitiless, polis, populace, populous, powerless, priceless, prothallus, purposeless, querulous, reckless, regardless, remorseless, ridiculous, riskless, rudderless, ruthless, scandalous, scoreless, scrupulous, scurrilous, seamless, selfless, senseless, sexless, shameless, shapeless, skinless, sleepless, sleeveless, smokeless, solace, soulless, speechless, spineless, stainless, stimulus, stylus, surplus, syphilis, tantalus, thankless, tieless, timeless, tireless, toothless, topless, treeless, trellis, tremulous, unscrupulous, useless, valueless, victimless, voiceless, windlass, windowless, wireless, wordless, worthless, zealous, zipless. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-l-n-o-s-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: clonuses, consults, contuses, counsels, countess, noctules, uncloses. | |
-2 letters: closest, closets, consuls, consult, contuse, counsel, ensouls, locusts, lotuses, noctule, oscules, solutes, telsons, tonuses, tousles, unclose. | |
-3 letters: census, centos, cestos, cestus, clones, clonus, closes, closet, clouts, coleus, consul, contes, cosets, cosset, counts, culets, custos, ensoul, escots, lentos, lesson, locust, louses, lucent, lunets, nouses, onsets, onuses. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-l-n-o-s-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: consulates, consulters. | |
+2 letters: countlessly, courtliness, inosculates, sansculotte. | |
+3 letters: exclusionist, fluorescents, functionless, incestuously, postulancies, sansculottes, speculations. | |
+4 letters: bluestockings, consultancies, counterblasts, counterspells, counterstyles, courtlinesses, elocutionists, emasculations, exclusionists, necessitously, nucleotidases, proconsulates, subadolescent, vesiculations. | |
+5 letters: conceptualises, conceptualisms, conceptualists, constabularies, counterassault, documentalists, electrotonuses, encapsulations, felicitousness, gesticulations, incombustibles, licentiousness, meticulousness, solicitousness, subadolescents, subcollections, subcutaneously. | |
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