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Definition of Immeasurable
1. Adjective. Impossible to measure. "Unmeasurable reaches of outer space"
Similar to: Abysmal, Illimitable, Limitless, Measureless
Antonyms: Measurable
2. Adjective. Beyond calculation or measure. "Immeasurable wealth"
Definition of Immeasurable
1. a. Incapable of being measured; indefinitely extensive; illimitable; immensurable; vast.
Definition of Immeasurable
1. Adjective. impossible to measure ¹
2. Adjective. vast ¹
3. Noun. Anything that cannot be measured. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Immeasurable
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Immeasurable
Literary usage of Immeasurable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"In every step of the inquiry, we are compelled to feel and acknowledge the
immeasurable disproportion between the size of the object and the capacity of the ..."
2. The Popular Science Monthly (1894)
"The second great task relates to the ceaseless struggle with the lower forms of
animal and vegetable life which prey upon useful forms in immeasurable and ..."
3. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"But however general the predisposition to the assumption of fictitious character
may be, there is an immeasurable distance betwixt the rude games in which ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"11 is when we turn to his prose that we realize, from the immeasurable difference
between it and his verse, how comparatively low the received standard of ..."
5. Hawthorne and His Circle by Julian Hawthorne (1903)
"The breath and strength of immeasurable antiquity—Treasures coming direct from
dead hands into mine—A pleasant sound of coolness and refreshment ..."
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