immeasurable
Word family
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++im·mea·su·ra·ble /ɪˈmeʒərəbəl/ adjective LOT/LARGE NUMBER OR AMOUNTused to emphasize that something is too big or too extreme to be measured 无法计量的 The refugee problem has now reached immeasurable proportions. 难民问题现在已经到了无法估量的程度。 —immeasurably adverb Your Spanish has improved immeasurably. 你的西班牙语进步极大。Examples from the Corpus
immeasurable• In particular, examination fever is leading to ever more fatuous and expensive efforts to measure the immeasurable.• The cost would be immeasurable, but there would be green on either side of Zayed's desert highway in his lifetime.• But she knew it would take a while before the immeasurable hunger receded within her.• I count that an immeasurable plus.• In that forest between sleep and wakefulness I understood, with immeasurable relief, their words.• Cloud shadows scudded across immeasurable stands of virgin forests.• The war has caused immeasurable suffering.• The freedom to become an entrepreneur or choose our occupation is a freedom of immeasurable value.• What I see now is the complete futility, the gross over-production, the immeasurable waste of emotion and words.im·mea·su·ra·ble adjectiveChineseSyllable
something or too to big that Corpus used emphasize is too
immeasurable
im‧mea‧su‧ra‧ble /ɪˈmeʒərəbəl/
adjective
The refugee problem has now reached immeasurable proportions.
—immeasurably adverb:
Your Spanish has improved immeasurably.
im‧mea‧su‧ra‧ble /ɪˈmeʒərəbəl/
adjective Word Family: adjective: measurable ≠ immeasurable, measured, measureless; noun: measure, measurement; verb: measure; adverb: measurably ≠ immeasurably
used to emphasize that something is too big or too extreme to be measured: —immeasurably adverb: