innumerable
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describes a very large number of things that you cannot count them all.
too many to be counted or enumerated; often used for emphasis in formal or literary contexts.
Simple“There are innumerable stars in the sky on a clear night.”
In context“The researcher spent years documenting the innumerable variations in local dialects across the mountain range.”
UsageUsually placed before the noun it describes.
Teacher's tipWhile it literally means 'cannot be counted', it is almost always used as a formal synonym for 'very many'.
“There’s a vertiginous video-game logic to Runner’s shin-splitting, anvil-heavy violence that at once unites the film with its innumerable Netflix brethren and also distinguishes it from them.”
From in- + numerable; from Middle English innumerable, from Latin innumerābilis, from in- + numerābilis.
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.