Talk:uncountably

Didn't find this in a dictionary I checked but 78 kilogoogles. "uncountably many" seems reasonable to me (adverb modifiying many answering how many). RJFJR 01:46, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

The following information passed a request for deletion.

This discussion is no longer live and is left here as an archive. Please do not modify this conversation, but feel free to discuss its conclusions.

---

uncountably

Intensifier sense: "a particularly vast number". Same as sense 1 ("too many to be counted"), even if figurative. Equinox ◑ 00:38, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Consider some examples of usage:

"as uncountably many as grains of rice in a dinner bowl."

I think these illustrate a fairly vague intensifier use of the term, though something less specific than the RfDed sense or possibly a sense like "too impractical, boring, or gauche to count". DCDuring TALK 01:17, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

I dunno. Compare unplayably: you might call an old computer game "unplayably slow for a modern impatient gamer", and of course it wouldn't literally be slow to the degree where it was impossible to play. That's just typical hyperbole, not a separate sense. Equinox ◑ 18:30, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

Resolved. The cites are good, removed one redundant definition--Jackofclubs 12:53, 16 June 2009 (UTC)