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单词 immeasurable
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Definition of immeasurable in English:

immeasurable

adjective ɪˈmɛʒ(ə)rəb(ə)lɪ(m)ˈmɛʒ(ə)rəb(ə)l
  • Too large, extensive, or extreme to measure.

    immeasurable suffering
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He also showed that it is not immeasurable: we can give a precise mathematical measure to how big it is.
    • The war was over, but the cost to ordinary people in human suffering was immeasurable.
    • In this sense at least, I suppose he chose one form of immeasurable infinity over another.
    • Radicalism hates moderation and measure, and compromise hates the immeasurable.
    • The rest of those twenty feet took eons to traverse, and it was immeasurable suffering.
    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 ɪmɛʒ(ə)rəˈbɪlɪtiɪ(m)ˌmɛʒ(ə)rəˈbɪlədi
    • 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.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • 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.
      • In fact, such matters are trivialities against the music, which is instead at once inspired by and fearful of nature's boundless immeasurability.
 
 

Definition of immeasurable in US English:

immeasurable

adjectivei(m)ˈmeZH(ə)rəb(ə)lɪ(m)ˈmɛʒ(ə)rəb(ə)l
  • Too large, extensive, or extreme to measure.

    immeasurable suffering
    Example sentencesExamples
    • In this sense at least, I suppose he chose one form of immeasurable infinity over another.
    • 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.
    • Radicalism hates moderation and measure, and compromise hates the 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
 
 
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