Meaning & use

immeasurable

adjective·Advanced

Too great, vast, or extensive to be measured or calculated.

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The rescue workers showed immeasurable courage during the flood.

Losing her grandmother caused an immeasurable sense of grief in the family.

A note on using this word

Immeasurable is generally used figuratively to stress the extreme degree of something, not a literal inability to quantify it.

Words with a similar meaning

boundlessincalculable

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