| 单词 | incalculable |
| 释义 | incalculable (once / 1896 pages) adj Something that can't be counted — because it's too big, or it just can't be pinned down that way — is incalculable. A kindergarten class's excitement on Halloween is incalculable. The depth of your love for your cat might be incalculable, and so is the concept of infinity. Things that can't be accurately measured can be described with the adjective incalculable, as can things that aren't predictable: "His anger over the dent in his car was incalculable. The root of the word is calculate, or count, which comes from the Latin calculare, "to reckon, or to compute." WORD FAMILYincalculable: incalculably+/calculable: calculably, incalculable/calculate: calculable, calculated, calculates, calculating, calculation, calculative, calculator, miscalculate, recalculate/calculated: calculatedly/calculating: calculatingly/calculation: calculations/calculative: calculatively/calculator: calculators/miscalculate: miscalculated, miscalculates, miscalculating, miscalculation/miscalculation: miscalculations/recalculate: recalculated, recalculates, recalculating, recalculation/recalculation: recalculations USAGE EXAMPLESThis is a hunting license to ostracize Israel from the international economic system, exposing it and its citizens to incalculable personal and financial risk. Wall Street Journal(Dec 26, 2016) Finally, fodder for your good intentions for 2016: a year’s worth of scientific findings on the nearly incalculable benefits of exercise. New York Times(Dec 21, 2016) Mr. Trump himself is a wild card, in some ways an incalculable president. Wall Street Journal(Dec 20, 2016) adj not capable of being computed or enumerated Syn|Ant countless, infinite, innumerable, innumerous, multitudinous, myriad, numberless, uncounted, unnumberable, unnumbered, unnumerable too numerous to be counted immeasurable, incomputable, inestimablebeyond calculation or measure indeterminableincapable of being definitely ascertained indeterminable, undeterminablenot capable of being definitely decided or ascertained calculable capable of being calculated or estimated computable, estimablemay be computed or estimated countable, denumerable, enumerable, numerablethat can be counted determinablecapable of being determined or limited or fixed |
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