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单词 innumerous
释义
innumerous
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adj

It's tricky — or impossible — to count Innumerous things, because there are so many of them. When you ride your bike at dusk in the summertime, right through clouds of innumerous mosquitoes, it's important to keep your mouth closed.
There are innumerous stars in the sky and innumerous grains of sand on the beach. You could also write a poem about the innumerous things you love about your girlfriend. Innumerous is primarily a literary adjective, so using it in a poem is a good idea. It comes from the Latin numerus, "a number," and the "not" prefix, in-, essentially "not able to be numbered."
WORD FAMILY
innumerous: innumerously+/numerous: innumerous, numerosity, numerousest, numerously, numerousness
USAGE EXAMPLES
In that inundation of the light of heaven the stars paled, innumerous, like a silvery powder sprinkled by the moonshine.
Couperus, Louis, The Tour—A Story of Ancient Egypt(2011)
With that the air was full of the hum of innumerous flies, midges, bees, wasps, moths, and all winged insects.
Macleod, Fiona, The Divine Adventure Volume IV(2011)
No longer rich with the little innumerous blooms of brief delights, Nor all divinely drenched with sympathy.
Rice, Cale Young, Sea Poems(2010)
adj too numerous to be counted
Syn
countless, infinite, innumerable, multitudinous, myriad, numberless, uncounted, unnumberable, unnumbered, unnumerable
incalculable
not capable of being computed or enumerated
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