Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Immeasurable \Im*meas"ur*a*ble\, a. [Pref. im- not + measurable: cf. F. measurable. Cf. Immensurable, Unmeasurable.] Incapable of being measured; indefinitely extensive; illimitable; immensurable; vast.
Of depth immeasurable.
--Milton.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., from im- + measurable. It could alternate with immensurable (1530s), from French, from Late Latin immensurabilis, from assimilated form of in- "not" + mensurabilis "able to be measured," from mensurare "to measure." Related: Immeasurably.
Wiktionary
a. 1 impossible to measure 2 vast n. Anything that cannot be measured.
WordNet
adj. impossible to measure; "unmeasurable reaches of outer space" [syn: unmeasurable, immensurable] [ant: measurable]
beyond calculation or measure; "of incalculable value"; "an incomputable amount"; "jewels of inestimable value"; "immeasurable wealth" [syn: incomputable, inestimable]
Usage examples of "immeasurable".
Sheets of immeasurable fire, and veins Of gold and stone, and adamantine iron.
Then without awaiting her permission he poured out a large spoonful, and swallowed it with a grimace that seemed to betoken immeasurable satisfaction.
And Iagoo, the great boaster, He the marvellous story-teller, He the friend of old Nokomis, Jealous of the sweet musician, Jealous of the applause they gave him, Saw in all the eyes around him, Saw in all their looks and gestures, That the wedding guests assembled Longed to hear his pleasant stories, His immeasurable falsehoods.
A visored helm with a chain camail disguised much of his features, but the Mhybe sensed in him an immeasurable strength of will.
Dante, and you will find that to them the earth is the center of creation, that the infinite stars circle around it, and that man is the king of animals: a geocentric and anthropocentric illusion inspired by immeasurable conceit.
I have always had a passion for moonlight and I stood long on the piazza watching the great disk-change from from its horizon copper to gold, then cool to silver as it swung up into the immeasurable tranquil62 DuBose Heyward lity of the southern night.
So, too, the ouphs were driven out into the gulf of air where they whirled, slowly at first, then more quickly, keening an immeasurable sorrow that was sucked into the vortex and away.
THE EPISODE OF THE SEALED DOCUMENT CHAPTER 1 Father of all surveyors, Time drags his chain of rust through every life, and only Love - unaging God of the Ages - immeasurable, keeps his untarnished youth.
Which the circumfluous plain waving below, Like a wide lake of green fertility, With streams and fields and marshes bare, Divides from the far Apennines--which lie Islanded in the immeasurable air.
He therefore appeared before Aunt Chloe with a touchingly subdued, resigned expression, like one who has suffered immeasurable hardships in behalf of a persecuted fellow-creature,--enlarged upon the fact that Missis had directed him to come to Aunt Chloe for whatever might be wanting to make up the balance in his solids and fluids,--and thus unequivocally acknowledged her right and supremacy in the cooking department, and all thereto pertaining.
The black hair had seemed at last a forest, immeasurable, pathless and enchanted, luring him to a fatal adventure .
I ask the Theist, if he does not allow, that there is a great and immeasurable, because incomprehensible difference between the human and the divine mind: The more pious he is, the more readily will he assent to the affirmative, and the more will he be disposed to magnify the difference: He will even assert, that the difference is of a nature which cannot be too much magnified.
It was obvious that Vita was physically healthy and emotionally sound, and that was an immeasurable reassurance.
The five hundred million Brahmanic and Buddhist believers hold that all the gods, men, demons, and various grades of animal life occupying this immeasurable array of worlds compose one cosmic family.
Immeasurable, because in the great exemplars the bullshit is so artfully mingled and intertwined with actual received wisdom that its essential nature is deracinated and pasteurized.