English [ edit ]
Etymology [ edit ]
count + -less
Pronunciation [ edit ]
IPA (key ) : /ˈkaʊntləs/
Hyphenation: count‧less
Adjective [ edit ]
countless (not comparable )
Too many to count ; innumerable .
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.
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 [ edit ]
Translations [ edit ]
too many to count, innumerable
Armenian: անթիվ (hy) ( antʿiv ) , անհամար (hy) ( anhamar )
Bengali: বেশুমার (bn) ( beśumar )
Bulgarian: неизброим (bg) ( neizbroim ) , безбро́ен (bg) ( bezbróen )
Chinese:
Mandarin: 無數 / 无数 (zh) ( wúshù )
Czech: nesčetný , nesčíslný
Danish: utallig , talløs
Dutch: ontelbaar (nl) , talloos (nl)
Esperanto: nekalkulebla
Finnish: lukematon (fi) , rajaton (fi) ( limitless )
French: incalculable (fr) , innombrable (fr)
Galician: incontable (gl) , incontábel (gl)
German: unzählig (de) , unzählbar (de) , zahllos (de)
Greek: αμέτρητος (el) ( amétritos )
Ancient Greek: ἀναρίθμητος ( anaríthmētos )
Gujarati: અગણિત ( agaṇit )
Hebrew: אין ספור (he) ( ein sfor )
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 ( asaṅkhyaṃ )
Maori: makehua , tini makehua , tuauriuri , tini ngerongero
Norwegian:
Bokmål: talløs , tallaus , utallig
Nynorsk: tallaus
Old English: unārīmedlīċ
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
Roman: bezbrojan (sh) , bez broja
Spanish: incontable (es) , innumerable (es)
Swedish: otalig (sv)
Tagalog: di mabilang-bilang
Telugu: అగణితము (te) ( agaṇitamu )
Turkish: hesaplanamaz , hesapsız (tr) , pek çok (tr) , sayısız (tr)
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