uncountedとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

uncounted (not comparable)

1. Not counted.

   This pile was counted yesterday. Those piles over there are still uncounted.

2. Very numerous.

   Synonyms: countless, uncountable

   Perhaps somewhere among the uncounted stars in the sky there might be lurking a distant planet eerily similar to our own.

   • 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:

     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.

   • 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 […] ‎, 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 […]

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