immeasurable
/ɪˈmɛʒ(ə)rəb(ə)l
/adjective
Too large, extensive, or extreme to measure: immeasurable suffering...
- The rest of those twenty feet took eons to traverse, and it was immeasurable suffering.
- The war was over, but the cost to ordinary people in human suffering was immeasurable.
- He also showed that it is not immeasurable: we can give a precise mathematical measure to how big it is.
Synonyms
incalculable, inestimable, innumerable, unfathomable, fathomless, indeterminable, measureless, untold;
limitless, boundless, unbounded, unlimited, illimitable, infinite, cosmic, endless, never-ending, interminable, inexhaustible, bottomless;
vast, immense, great, abundant
informal no end of
literary myriad
rare innumerous, unnumberable
Derivatives
immeasurability
/ noun ...- For the basic ideas characteristic of our ordinary intuitive conception of the infinite - endlessness, unlimitedness, unsurveyability, immeasurability - more properly apply to the entire hierarchy than to anything in it.
- So, in place of the claim of the immeasurability of the affective dimensions of labour, one could point to a growing imperative to get the calculations right.
- It means the sublimity of God, the immeasurability of God's wisdom and the fathomless complexity of God's creative Spirit.
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