Incalculable
[ɪn'kælkjʊləb(ə)l] or [ɪn'kælkjələbl]
Definition
(a.) Not capable of being calculated; beyond calculation; very great.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Not to be calculated, not to be reckoned, beyond calculation.
Editor: Pratt
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See CALCULATE]
Editor: Winthrop
Definition
adj. not calculable or able to be reckoned.—ns. Incalculabil′ity Incal′culableness.—adv. Incal′culably.
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Examples
- Pure reason is so gentlemanly, but will and the visions of a people--these are adventurous and incalculable forces. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- This alone involved an incalculable setback to the march of scientific thought. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Dorset, of late, had grown more than usually morose and incalculable, and Ned Silverton went about with an air that seemed to challenge the universe. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- To us it was an empire and of incalculable value; but it might have been obtained by other means. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Here, Mr Sloppy opening his mouth to a quite alarming extent, and throwing back his head to peal again, revealed incalculable buttons. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I went on my way, not as before, feeling each hour, each minute, to be an age instinct with incalculable pain. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- At such a moment this gift of despoiled Italy to the world was a noble revenge, setting in motion incalculable beneficent forces and agencies. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- THE year 1847 marked a period of great territorial acquisition by the American people, with incalculable additions to their actual and potential wealth. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I have endured incalculable fatigue, and cold, and hunger; do you dare destroy my hopes? Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- You will now suffer incalculable injury upon your railroads if Hood is not speedily disposed of. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The old confused and divided world is condemned; it is going on provisionally under a sentence of great and as yet incalculable change. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- She remembered the chemist's warning against increasing the dose; and she had heard before of the capricious and incalculable action of the drug. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- The influence exerted by them has been incalculable. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- They were a new sort of machinery to him--but incalculable, incalculable. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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