incalculable

incalculable

English

Etymology

in- +‎ calculable

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪn.kæl.kjə.lə.bl/, [ɪnˈkʰæɫ.kjəˌlə.bl̩]

• Audio (US)

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Adjective

incalculable (comparative more incalculable, superlative most incalculable)

1. (not comparable) Too much, too vast, or too numerous to enable computation.

   The loss the National Library suffered from the fire is incalculable.

2. (not comparable, mathematics) Impossible to calculate.
3. (comparable) Of a person's mood or character, etc.: impossible to predict.

   He is incalculable when he's drunk. He can turn from an amiable person into a violent horror in a moment.

Synonyms

• (vast or numerous): huge; unimaginable
• (impossible to calculate): incomputable; see also Thesaurus:incalculable
• (of a person's mood or character, impossible to predict): capricious, fickle

Antonyms

• (vast or numerous): tiny
• (impossible to calculate): calculable

Related terms

• incalculability
• incalculably

Translations

very great or numerous

Belarusian: незлічоны (njezličóny) Bengali: বেশুমার (bn) (beśumar) Catalan: incalculable (ca) French: incalculable (fr) Galician: incalculable (gl), incalculábel (gl) German: unschätzbar (de) Greek: ανυπολόγιστος (el) (anypológistos) Italian: incalcolabile (it) Japanese: 計り知れない (ja) (hakarisirenai), 桁外れの (ketahazure no), 莫大な (ja) (bakudai na), 膨大な (ja) (bōdai na) Portuguese: incalculável Spanish: incalculable (es)

impossible to calculate

Catalan: incalculable (ca) Czech: nevypočitatelný (cs) French: incalculable (fr) Galician: incalculable (gl), incalculábel (gl) German: unabsehbar (de), unkalkulierbar (de) Greek: ανυπολόγιστος (el) (anypológistos) Italian: incalcolabile (it) Japanese: 計れない (ja) (hakarenai), 桁外れの (ketahazure no), 箆棒な (berabō na) Portuguese: incalculável Spanish: incalculable (es) Swedish: oberäknelig (sv)

of a person's mood or character: impossible to predict

Czech: nevypočitatelný (cs) Japanese: 気紛れな (ja) (kimagure na)

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Catalan

Etymology

in- +‎ calculable

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /iŋ.kəl.kuˈla.blə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /iŋ.kal.kuˈla.ble/

Adjective

incalculable (masculine and feminine plural incalculables)

1. incalculable

   Antonym: calculable

Further reading

• “incalculable” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “incalculable”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “incalculable” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “incalculable” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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French

Etymology

From in- +‎ calculable.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.kal.ky.labl/

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Adjective

incalculable (plural incalculables)

1. incalculable, innumerable

   Antonym: calculable

Further reading

• “incalculable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Spanish

Etymology

in- +‎ calculable

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /inkalkuˈlable/ [ĩŋ.kal.kuˈla.β̞le]
• Rhymes: -able
• Syllabification: in‧cal‧cu‧la‧ble

Adjective

incalculable (plural incalculables)

1. incalculable

   Antonym: calculable

Derived terms

• incalculablemente

Further reading

• “incalculable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014