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incalculable

[ in-kal-kyuh-luh-buhl ]

adjective

  1. very numerous or great.
  2. unable to be calculated; beyond calculation.
  3. incapable of being forecast or predicted; undeterminable.

    Synonyms: unforeseeable, unpredictable

  4. uncertain; unsure.


incalculable

/ ɪnˈkælkjʊləbəl /

adjective

  1. beyond calculation; unable to be predicted or determined


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Derived Forms

  • inˌcalculaˈbility, noun
  • inˈcalculably, adverb

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Other Words From

  • in·calcu·la·bili·ty in·calcu·la·ble·ness noun
  • in·calcu·la·bly adverb

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Word History and Origins

Origin of incalculable1

First recorded in 1785–95; in- 3 + calculable

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Example Sentences

The cost of a radical break with a nation’s own economic and cultural heritage is incalculable.

Gurung says that though her community has suffered incalculable loss, the pandemic has also moved workers to action.

With viral transmission, mutations and vaccinations in flux, the pandemic in the United States has reached an unpredictable phase in which human behavior may be the most incalculable variable.

Seemingly endless purgatory of deferred merriment and lukewarm takeout peppered with incalculable tragedies, great and small.

The damage done by this misguided opinion is incalculable and puts young people in danger.

The role football played in giving a center to black society in the South after World War II is almost incalculable.

“Ozymandias” is about the incalculable ramifications of that first tiny betrayal.

More likely, investors realise the ‘knock-on’ effects from a Cypriot default are literally incalculable.

The cost ballooned into an incalculable sum over a trillion dollars, a considerable amount of it impossible even to account for.

In our highly personal brand of politics, that type of emotional connection with average voters is incalculable.

Thousands of lives were lost, and property to an incalculable extent was destroyed.

From this time, by the help of these machines, immense and incalculable riches will accrue to the nation.

They couldn't quite reckon upon what I should do; they felt I had reserves of experience and incalculable traditions.

And brains at their best are only a ploughed field teeming always and forever with the worries of incalculable harvests.

Neither medicine nor rhetoric can promise achievement, for in either case there is always something incalculable.

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