| 单词 | countless |
| 释义 | countless (once / 576 pages) adj Countless means more than you could possibly count. If you have countless reasons why you love living in New York, there are so many reasons that you can't list them all. Countless is a good adjective to use when you want to emphasize how endless, huge, or immeasurable something is. Your could say that smoke detectors save countless lives each year, or that your principal has tried countless times to ban soda at school, only to be outvoted by the student council over and over. The word dates from the 16th century, from the verb count, with its Old French root, conter, "add up." WORD FAMILYcountless: countlessly, countlessness+/count: countable, counted, counter, counting, countless, counts, miscount, recount/counted: uncounted/counter: countered, countering, counters, encounter/counting: countings/encounter: encountered, encountering, encounters/miscount: miscounted, miscounting, miscounts/recount: recounted, recounting, recounts/recounting: recountings USAGE EXAMPLESMichael Clemens, who studies remittances and migration at the Center for Global Development, says that "for countless towns like Ixmiquilpan, remittances are an economic lifeline." Reuters(Jan 02, 2017) A gentle and wry bow-tied lawyer and stalwart of countless civic boards, Tom Lewis wears his gentility lightly. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) Since then, he’s gotten countless calls and texts asking for Mix. Seattle Times(Dec 29, 2016) adj too numerous to be counted countless hours Syn infinite, innumerable, innumerous, multitudinous, myriad, numberless, uncounted, unnumberable, unnumbered, unnumerable incalculable not capable of being computed or enumerated |
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