uncount

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verb

To deduct from a count; discount or subtract.

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Meanings

uncount1

verbuncount (third-person singular simple present uncounts, present participle uncounting, simple past and past participle uncounted)

present singular third person uncounts · participle present uncounting · participle past uncounted · past uncounted

  1. ambitransitiveTo deduct from a count; discount or subtract.

    Children accomplish learning how to count, and then almost immediately they have to learn how to 'uncount', that is, subtract.

    2017, Eugenia Cheng, Beyond Infinity
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    The jar rocks and falls, allowing the mice to 'uncount' themselves from the jar. The large mouse turns out to be a rock and the snake is left hungry.

    2019, Sue Pope, Pablo Mayorga, Enriching Mathematics in the Primary Curriculum, page 84

uncount2

adjectiveuncount (not comparable)
  1. not comparablegrammarUncountable.

    For example, the term abuse would require at least one definition for the uncount usage ‘invective, insulting language’, and another for the count usage ‘an item of invective, an insult’.

    2014, James Lambert, “Diachronic stability in Indian English lexis”, in World Englishes, page 118

Origin

uncount · verb

From un- (reversive prefix) + count (“to amount”).

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uncount · adjective

From un- (“not”) + count (“countable”).

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Cite this entry
APA

uncount. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/uncount

MLA

“uncount.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/uncount. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “uncount,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/uncount.

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