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uncounted

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Etymology

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From Middle English uncountit; equivalent to un- +‎ counted.

Adjective

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uncounted (not comparable)

  1. Not counted.
  2. Very numerous; uncountable.
    • 1918, School & Society, volume 7, page 230:
      [] 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.
    • 1995, John December, quoting Craig Jackson, The World Wide Web Unleashed, 2nd edition, Indianapolis, Ind.: Sams.net, →ISBN, page 450:
      The 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.
    • 2019, Richard Carr, quoting Robert Walters, March of the Moderates [] [1], Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:
      Around 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 []