INCALCULABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does incalculable mean? 

• INCALCULABLE (adjective)
  The adjective INCALCULABLE has 2 senses:

1. not able to be computed or enumerated

2. too much to be measured

  Familiarity information: INCALCULABLE used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INCALCULABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not able to be computed or enumerated

Similar:

countless; infinite; innumerable; innumerous; multitudinous; myriad; numberless; uncounted; unnumberable; unnumbered; unnumerable (too numerous to be counted)

immeasurable; incomputable; inestimable (beyond calculation or measure)

indeterminable (incapable of being definitely ascertained or calculated)

Also:

indeterminable; undeterminable (not capable of being definitely decided or ascertained)

Antonym:

calculable (able to be calculated or estimated)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Too much to be measured

Synonyms:

incalculable; untold

Context example:

incalculable riches

Similar:

much ((quantifier used with mass nouns) great in quantity or degree or extent)

 Context examples 

I have endured incalculable fatigue, and cold, and hunger; do you dare destroy my hopes?

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

‘There are thirty-nine enormous beryls,’ said he, ‘and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable.’

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Their evil was incalculable.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

For their own sakes they would, perhaps, be glad to see the departure of such formidable and incalculable people, but they have not themselves suggested any way by which we may reach the plains below.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The shaft into which the river hurls itself is an immense chasm, lined by glistening coal-black rock, and narrowing into a creaming, boiling pit of incalculable depth, which brims over and shoots the stream onward over its jagged lip.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

What would happen now in the dim incalculable hours?

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)