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countless

KOWNT-luhs/ˈkaʊntləs/

3 meanings of countless

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  1. 1
    determiner
    So many that you cannot count them all.

    Like trying to count every drop of rain in a storm.

    She owns countless toys scattered across her room.

    Countless people waited outside the stadium for hours.

    Similarnumerous

    Oppositefew

  2. 2
    adjective
    Describes a number so big that you could never finish counting up to it.

    The number of leaves in this whole forest is countless.

    The kids tried to guess the countless number of raindrops falling in the storm.

    Similarinnumerable, incalculable, uncountable

    Oppositefinite, countable

  3. 3
    adjective
    Not able to be counted, usually because there are far too many.

    The grains of sand on this beach are countless.

    After the big storm, the leaves in our yard seemed countless.

    Similaruncountable

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Origin

From the word 'count' plus the ending '-less', meaning 'cannot be counted'.