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numerable

[ noo-mer-uh-buhl, nyoo- ]

adjective

  1. capable of being counted, totaled, or numbered.


numerable

/ ˈnjuːmərəbəl /

adjective

  1. able to be numbered or counted


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Derived Forms

  • ˈnumerably, adverb

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Other Words From

  • numer·a·ble·ness noun
  • numer·a·bly adverb

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Word History and Origins

Origin of numerable1

1560–70; < Latin numerābilis that can be counted, equivalent to numer ( āre ) to number + -ābilis -able

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Example Sentences

Cricket clubs are perhaps numerable, though yearly increasing; but of the game itself there is no end.

There were also commissions to purchase in numerable things, ranging from meerschaum pipes to fine flannel shirts.

Not among such innumerable islands and the other provinces, scarcely numerable, where you are not?

Jack says in a letter that his beard "was not composed of hair, but hairs as straight and numerable as those in a cat's whiskers."

On the decayed tree-trunks, too, there are little white columns in numerable, with black heads as though they had been burnt.

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