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Definitions: Immeasurably |
ImmeasurablyAdverb1. To an immeasurable degree; beyond measurement; "the war left him immeasurably fearful of what man can do to man". 2. Without bounds; "he is infinitely wealthy". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "immeasurably" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Synonyms: ImmeasurablySynonyms: boundlessly (adv), infinitely (adv). (additional references) |
| Antonym: measurably (adv). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Greatness | Greatly; Adjective: much, muckle, well, indeed, very, very much, a deal, no end of, most, not a little; pretty, pretty well; enough, in a great measure, richly; to a large extent, to a great extent, to a gigantic extent; on a large scale; so; never so, ever so; ever so dole; scrap, shred, tag, splinter, rag, much; by wholesale; mighty, powerfully; with a witness, ultra, in the extreme, extremely, exceedingly, intensely, exquisitely, acutely, indefinitely, immeasurably; beyond compare, beyond comparison, beyond measure, beyond all bounds; incalculably, infinitely. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Immeasurably |
| English words defined with "immeasurably": aeon, atomic, atomlike ♦ eon ♦ infinitesimal ♦ lined ♦ microscopic, minute ♦ seamed. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Well, there's nothing I like more than to be congratulated, though invariably I find the pleasure immeasurably greater when I know what for. (Ideal Husband, An; writing credit: Oscar Wilde; Oliver Parker) | |
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| Author | Quotation |
William Ellery Channing | To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | We know from day-to-day experience that the chance for a just solution is immeasurably increased when everyone directly interested is given a voice. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | Nevertheless our unity of purpose and will has been, I believe, immeasurably strengthened. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | Science and Technology Science and technology contribute immeasurably to the lives of all Americans. |
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| "Immeasurably" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Immeasurably" is used about 105 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 |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 105 | 31,781 |
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 |
immeasurably | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "immeasurably"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Finnish | verrattomasti (by far, incomparably, pre-eminently), verrattava (by far, incomparably, pre-eminently). (various references) | |
French | incommensurablement. (various references) | |
German | unermessliche (more immense, unmeasurably), unermesslich (immeasurable, immense, incalculable, measureless, unbounded, unmeasurable, unmeasured, untold, vast). (various references) | |
Norwegian | umåtelig (exceedingly, immensely, immoderate). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | immeasurablyay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "immeasurably" (pronounced i'me"zhera'blē) |
| 3 | -b l ē | ably, admirably, amiably, amicably, appreciably, arguably, assembly, audibly, bubbly, charitably, comfortably, comparably, conceivably, considerably, credibly, creditably, demonstrably, doubly, equitably, fashionably, favorably, feasibly, feebly, flexibly, forcibly, formidably, glibly, honorably, horribly, humbly, impeccably, imperceptibly, implausibly, impossibly, improbably, incomparably, incredibly, indelibly, indisputably, inevitably, inexorably, inexplicably, inextricably, inseparably, interchangeably, interminably, intolerably, invariably, irreparably, irresistibly, irresponsibly, irretrievably, irreversibly, irrevocably, justifiably, knowledgeably, measurably, memorably, miserably, nimbly, nobly, notably, noticeably, ostensibly, palpably, passably, peaceably, plausibly, possibly, predictably, preferably, presumably, probably, profitably, reasonably, reassembly, recognizably, regrettably, reliably, remarkably, respectably, responsibly, sensibly, subassembly, suitably, superbly, terribly, trembly, unacceptably, unaccountably, unalterably, unavoidably, unbearably, unbelievably, uncomfortably, uncontrollably, undeniably, understandably, unequivocably, unfavorably, unjustifiably, unmistakably, unpredictably, unquestionably, unreasonably, unseasonably, visibly. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-e-i-l-m-m-r-s-u-y" | |
-2 letters: measurably. | |
-3 letters: imbalmers, miserably, subaerial, summarily. | |
-4 letters: alarmism, almemars, ambaries, amusable, balisaur, basilary, bilayers, brulyies, imbalmer, labarums, lamasery, marimbas, mislayer, mumblers, raisable, samarium, simaruba, slumbery, slummier, smarmily, sublimer, summable, summerly, uraemias. | |
-5 letters: abelias, abulias, abysmal, aerials, alarums, almemar, ambaris, amblers, ambries, amiable, amiably, amylase, amylums, arables, baalism, bailers, baileys, balmier, bariums, barleys, basilar, beamily, bilayer, blamers, brulyie, bummers, burials, burleys, embalms, erbiums, imbalms, imbrues, immures, labarum, labrums, lambers, lambier, lambies, limbers, limmers, lumbars, lumbers, mailers, maimers, malaise, malmier, malmsey, marbles, marimba, maulers, melisma, miasmal, mimbars, miserly, misrely, misrule, mumbler, mumbles, railbus, rambles, realism, remails, rumbles, rummies, samurai, sayable, serumal, simular, slammer, slimmer, slumber, slummer, subalar, subarea, sublime, summary, summery, uraemia, uremias, useably, yammers, yummier, yummies. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 6D 6D 65 61 73 75 72 61 62 6C 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. -- -- . .- ... ..- .-. .- -... .-.. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01101101 01101101 01100101 01100001 01110011 01110101 01110010 01100001 01100010 01101100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I m m e a s u r a b l y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 006D 006D 0065 0061 0073 0075 0072 0061 0062 006C 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)437979716785878467687891 |
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