numerous

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈnuməɹəs/, /ˈnumɹəs/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈnjuːməɹəs/, /ˈnjuːmɹəs/

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• Hyphenation: nu‧mer‧ous, num‧erous

Adjective

numerous (comparative more numerous, superlative most numerous)

1. Indefinitely large numerically, many.
   • 2012 March-April, Allen, Colin, “Do I See What You See?”, in American Scientist‎^[1], volume 100, number 2, United States: Sigma Xi, ISSN 0003-0996, OCLC 645082957, page 168:

     Numerous experimental tests and other observations have been offered in favor of animal mind reading, and although many scientists are skeptical, others assert that humans are not the only species capable of representing what others do and don’t perceive and know.

   There are numerous definitions of the word 'man'.

Synonyms

• many, multiple; see also Thesaurus:manifold

Derived terms

Derived terms

• overnumerous
• supernumerous

• unnumerous

Translations

Indefinitely large numerically

• Arabic: عَدِيد‎ (ʿadīd), كَثِير‎ (ar) (kaṯīr)
• Azerbaijani: çoxsaylı
• Belarusian: шматлі́кі (šmatlíki)
• Catalan: nombrós (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 眾多 (zh), 众多 (zh) (zhòngduō), 多 (zh) (duō)

• Czech: četný (cs) m, početný (cs) m
• Danish: talrig
• Dutch: talrijk (nl), ontelbaar (nl), numereus
• Egyptian: (ꜥšꜣ)
• Esperanto: multnombra
• Finnish: lukuisa (fi)
• French: nombreux (fr)
• Galician: numeroso m
• Georgian: ურიცხვი (uricxvi), უამრავი (uamravi), დიდძალი (didʒali)
• German: zahlreich (de), vielzählig
• Hebrew: רַב‎ (he) (rav)
• Hungarian: számos (hu), nagyszámú (hu)
• Interlingua: numerose
• Irish: líonmhar
• Italian: numeroso (it)

• Japanese: 多数の (ja) (たすうの, tasū no), 多い (ja) (おおい, ōi)
• Korean: 수많다 (ko) (sumanta)
• Latin: numerōsus, frequens, creber
• Low German:

  German Low German: tahlriek, tallriek

• Maori: makiu, tini makiu, maruru, maha, ngeangea, huhua, tini whāioio, mahamaha, tīpatere, makehua, tini makehua
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tallrik (no)

  Nynorsk: talrik

• Old English: getælfull
• Polish: liczny (pl) m
• Portuguese: numeroso (pt)
• Romanian: numeros (ro) m or n
• Russian: многочи́сленный (ru) (mnogočíslennyj)
• Spanish: numeroso m, numerosa (es) f
• Swedish: talrik (sv)
• Ukrainian: багаточи́сельний (bahatočýselʹnyj)
• Vietnamese: đông (vi), nhiều (vi)