numerable

[ noo-mer-uh-buhl, nyoo- ]

adjective

1. capable of being counted, totaled, or numbered.

numerable

/ ˈnjuːmərəbəl /

adjective

1. able to be numbered or counted

Derived Forms

• ˈnumerably, adverb

Other Words From

• numer·a·ble·ness noun
• numer·a·bly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of numerable¹

1560–70; < Latin numerābilis that can be counted, equivalent to numer ( āre ) to number + -ābilis -able

Example Sentences

Cricket clubs are perhaps numerable, though yearly increasing; but of the game itself there is no end.

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There were also commissions to purchase in numerable things, ranging from meerschaum pipes to fine flannel shirts.

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Not among such innumerable islands and the other provinces, scarcely numerable, where you are not?

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Jack says in a letter that his beard "was not composed of hair, but hairs as straight and numerable as those in a cat's whiskers."

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On the decayed tree-trunks, too, there are little white columns in numerable, with black heads as though they had been burnt.

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