uncountable

Plural: uncountables

Adj

• So many as to be incapable of being counted.
• Incapable of being put into one-to-one correspondence with the natural numbers or any subset thereof.
• That cannot be used freely with numbers or the indefinite article, and therefore usually takes no plural form. Example: information.

Noun

• A noun that is uncountable.

Examples

• "Cantor’s “diagonal proof” shows that the set of real numbers is uncountable."
• "Many languages do not distinguish countable nouns from uncountable nouns."
• "One meaning in law of the usually uncountable noun "information" is used in the plural and is countable."
• "The reasons for our failure were as uncountable as the grains of sand on a beach."

Synonyms

countless, innumerable, mass noun, non-count, non-count noun, noncount, noncount noun, numberless, uncountable, uncountable noun, uncounted, unnumberable, unnumbered, untold

Antonyms

count noun, countable, countable noun

Related Words

singulare tantum, universal grinder, universal packager, universal sorter