incalculable

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *né

Proto-Indo-European *n̥-

Proto-Italic *n̥-

Latin in-bor.

Middle English in-

English in-

English calculable

English incalculable

From in- + calculable.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈkæl.kjə.lə.bəl/, [ɪnˈkʰæɫ.kjəˌlə.bl̩]

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• Rhymes: -ælkjələbəl
• Hyphenation: in‧cal‧cu‧la‧ble

Adjective

incalculable (comparative more incalculable, superlative most incalculable)

1. (not comparable, mathematics) Impossible to calculate.

   Synonyms: incomputable; see also Thesaurus:incalculable

   Coordinate term: inestimable

2. (not comparable) Too much, too vast, or too numerous to enable computation.

   Synonyms: innumerable, unimaginable, huge

   The loss the National Library suffered from the fire is incalculable.

3. (comparable) Of a person's mood or character, etc.: impossible to predict.

   Synonyms: capricious, fickle

   He is incalculable when he's drunk. He can turn from an amiable person into a violent horror in a moment.

Derived terms

• incalculableness

Related terms

• incalculability
• incalculably

Translations

impossible to calculate

• Catalan: incalculable (ca)
• Czech: nevypočitatelný (cs)
• French: incalculable (fr)
• Galician: incalculable (gl), incalculábel (gl)
• German: unabsehbar (de), unkalkulierbar (de)
• Greek: ανυπολόγιστος (el) (anypológistos)
• Italian: incalcolabile (it)
• Japanese: 計れない (ja) (hakarenai), 桁外れの (ketahazure no), 箆棒な (berabō na)
• Polish: nieobliczalny (pl)
• Portuguese: incalculável
• Spanish: incalculable (es)
• Swedish: oberäknelig (sv)
• Turkish: hesapsız (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: حسابسز (hisabsız)

very great or numerous

• Belarusian: незлічоны (njezličóny)
• Bengali: বেশুমার (bn) (beśumar)
• Catalan: incalculable (ca)
• Finnish: lukematon (fi)
• French: incalculable (fr)
• Galician: incalculable (gl), incalculábel (gl)
• German: unschätzbar (de)
• Greek: ανυπολόγιστος (el) (anypológistos)
• Italian: incalcolabile (it)
• Japanese: 計り知れない (ja) (hakarisirenai), 桁外れの (ketahazure no), 莫大な (ja) (bakudai na), 膨大な (ja) (bōdai na)
• Polish: nieobliczalny (pl)
• Portuguese: incalculável
• Spanish: incalculable (es)

of a person's mood or character: impossible to predict

• Czech: nevypočitatelný (cs)
• Dutch: onberekenbaar (nl)
• Finnish: arvaamaton (fi)
• French: imprévisible (fr)
• German: unberechenbar (de)
• Japanese: 気紛れな (ja) (kimagure na)
• Polish: nieobliczalny (pl)

Catalan

Etymology

From in- +‎ calculable.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central) [iŋ.kəl.kuˈlab.blə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [iŋ.kal.kuˈla.ble]
• IPA^(key): (Northwestern) [iŋ.kal.kuˈlab.ble]

• Audio (Barcelona):

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Adjective

incalculable m or f (masculine and feminine plural incalculables)

1. incalculable

   Antonym: calculable

Further reading

• “incalculable”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “incalculable”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “incalculable” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “incalculable”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

French

Etymology

From in- +‎ calculable.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.kal.ky.labl/

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Adjective

incalculable (plural incalculables)

1. incalculable, innumerable

   Antonym: calculable

Further reading

• “incalculable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Spanish in-

Latin calculārebor.

Spanish calcular

Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr

Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlomder.

Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis

Proto-Italic *-ðlis

Latin -bilis

Latin -ābilis

Old Spanish -abile

Spanish -able

Spanish calculable

Spanish incalculable

From in- + calculable.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /inkalkuˈlable/ [ĩŋ.kal.kuˈla.β̞le]
• Rhymes: -able
• Syllabification: in‧cal‧cu‧la‧ble

Adjective

incalculable m or f (masculine and feminine plural incalculables)

1. incalculable

   Antonym: calculable

Derived terms

• incalculablemente

Further reading

• “incalculable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025