Meanings
uncounted1
- not comparableNot counted.
This pile was counted yesterday. Those piles over there are still uncounted.
- not comparableVery numerous.
Perhaps somewhere among the uncounted stars in the sky there might be lurking a distant planet eerily similar to our own.
4 more examples
Rumour is a pipe, / Blowne by ſurmizes, / Iealouſies[,] coniectures, / And of ſo eaſie, and ſo plaine a ſtop, / That the blunt monſter, with vncounted heads, / The ſtill diſcordant wau’ring multitude, / Can play vpon it.
c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Second Part of Henrie the Fourth, […], quarto edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i (induction)], signature A2, recto[…] under proper control and with an intelligent system of recess-and-noon-period-recreation the child can have uncounted good times, while with too stern a discipline or too lax a facile subjection of the teasesome and bully types and too little attention to promoting harmonious play, the grade school years may be made an unpleasant period of life.
1918, School & Society, volume 7, page 230The Invisible Killer Dihydrogen monoxide is colorless, odorless, tasteless, and kills uncounted thousands of people every year. Most of these deaths are caused by accidental inhalation of DHMO, but the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide do not end there.
1995, John December, quoting Craig Jackson, The World Wide Web Unleashed, 2nd edition, Indianapolis, Ind.: Sams.net, →ISBN, page 450Around the same time, nationally syndicated journalist Robert Walters was reporting that ‘many members of Congress refuse to even acknowledge the fact that uncounted thousands of jobs in the auto, steel and other traditional “smokestack” industries have been irretrievably lost while employment opportunities in high technology fields are becoming available at an accelerating rate[…]
2019, Richard Carr, quoting Robert Walters, March of the Moderates […] , Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBNSynonyms: countless, uncountable
uncounted2
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of uncount
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveVery numerous.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivetoo numerous to be counted
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Middle Englishuncountit
- Englishuncounted
From Middle English uncountit; equivalent to un- + counted.
More words from Middle English
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Esperanto nombrita, nekalkulita
- nombritanot counted
- nekalkulitanot counted
Cite this entry
uncounted. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/uncounted
“uncounted.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/uncounted. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “uncounted,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/uncounted.
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