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Roget's Thesaurus

Indeterminate Number

Plurality (More than one)

Nouns
  • plurality
  • a number, a certain number
  • one or two, two or three etc.
  • a few, several
  • multitude etc. Multitude
  • majority. [large number] multitude etc. Multitude.
Adjectives
  • plural, more than one, upwards of
  • some, several, a few
  • certain
  • not alone etc. Unity.
Adverbs
  • et cetera, c. etc. among other things

Fraction (Less than one)

Nouns
  • fraction, fractional part
  • part etc. Part.
Adjectives
  • fractional, fragmentary, inconsiderable, negligible, infinitesimal.

Zero

Nouns
  • zero, nothing
  • null, nul, naught, nought, void
  • cipher, goose egg
  • none, nobody, no one
  • nixie [Slang], nix [Slang]
  • zilch [Slang], zip [Slang], zippo [Slang]
  • not a soul
  • absence etc. Absence
  • unsubstantiality etc. Unsubstantiality.
Adjectives
  • not one, not a one, not any, nary a one [Dial.]
  • not a, never a
  • not a whit of, not an iota of, not a drop of, not a speck of, not a jot
  • not a trace of, not a hint of, not a smidgen of, not a suspicion of, not a shadow of, neither hide nor hair of.

Multitude

Nouns
  • multitude
  • numerous etc. adj.
  • numerosity, numerality
  • multiplicity
  • profusion etc. (plenty) Sufficiency
  • legion, host
  • great number, large number, round number, enormous number
  • a quantity, numbers, array, sight, army, sea, galaxy
  • scores, peck, bushel, shoal, swarm, draught, bevy, cloud, flock, herd, drove, flight, covey, hive, brood, litter, farrow, fry, nest
  • crowd etc. (assemblage) Assemblage
  • lots
  • all in the world and his wife. [Increase of number] greater number, majority
  • multiplication, multiple.
Verbs
  • be numerous etc. adj.
  • swarm with, teem with, creep with
  • crowd, swarm, come thick upon
  • outnumber, multiply
  • people
  • swarm like locusts, swarm like bees.
Adjectives
  • many, several, sundry, divers, various, not a few
  • Briarean
  • a hundred, a thousand, a myriad, a million, a quadrillion, a nonillion, a thousand and one
  • some ten or a dozen, some forty or fifty etc.
  • half a dozen, half a hundred etc.
  • very many, full many, ever so many
  • numerous
  • numerose
  • profuse, in profusion
  • manifold, multiplied, multitudinous, multiple, multinominal, teeming, populous, peopled, crowded, thick, studded
  • galore. thick coming, many more, more than one can tell, a world of
  • no end of, no end to
  • thick as hops, thick as hail
  • plenty as blackberries
  • numerous as the stars in the firmament, numerous as the sands on the seashore, numerous as the hairs on the head
  • and what not, and heaven knows what
  • endless etc. (infinite) Infinity.
Phrases
  • their name is 'legion'
  • many-headed multitude" [Sidney]
  • numerous as glittering gems of morning numerous as glittering gems of morning dew" [Young]

Fewness

Nouns
  • fewness etc. adj.
  • paucity, small number
  • small quantity etc. Smallness
  • rarity
  • infrequency etc. Infrequency
  • handful, maniple
  • minority
  • exiguity. [Diminution of number] reduction
  • weeding etc. v.
  • elimination, sarculation, decimation
  • eradication.
Verbs
  • be few etc. adj.. render few etc. adj.
  • reduce, diminish the number, weed, eliminate, cull, thin, decimate.
Adjectives
  • few
  • scant, scanty
  • thin, rare, scattered, thinly scattered, spotty, few and far between, exiguous
  • infrequent etc. Infrequency
  • hardly any, scarcely any
  • to be counted on one's fingers
  • reduced etc. v.
  • unrepeated.
Adverbs
  • rarely, here and there.

Repetition

Nouns
Verbs
  • repeat, iterate, reiterate, reproduce, echo, reecho, drum, harp upon, battologize, hammer, redouble. recur, revert, return, reappear, recurse [Comp.]
  • renew etc. (restore) Restoration. rehearse
  • do over again, say over again
  • ring the changes on
  • harp on the same string
  • din in the ear, drum in the ear
  • conjugate in all its moods tenses and conjugate in all its moods tenses and inflexions, begin again, go over the same ground, go the same round, never hear the last of
  • resume, return to, recapitulate, reword.
Adjectives
  • repeated etc. v.
  • repetitional, repetitionary
  • recurrent, recurring
  • ever recurring, thick coming
  • frequent, incessant
  • redundant, pleonastic. monotonous, harping, iterative, recursive [Comp.], unvaried
  • mocking, chiming
  • retold
  • aforesaid, aforenamed
  • above-mentioned, above-said
  • habitual etc. Habit [includes commonness due to frequency of occurrence]
  • another.
Adverbs
  • repeatedly, often, again, anew, over again, afresh, once more
  • ding-dong, ditto, encore, de novo, bis
  • over and over, over and over again
  • recursively [Comp.]
  • many times over
  • time and again, time after time
  • year after year
  • day by day etc.
  • many times, several times, a number of times
  • many a time, full many a time
  • frequently etc. Frequency.
Phrases
  • cut and come again" [Crabbe]
  • tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow" [Macbeth]

Infinity

Nouns
Verbs
  • be infinite etc. adj.
  • know no limits, have no limits, know no bounds, have no bounds
  • go on for ever.
Adjectives
  • infinite
  • immense
  • numberless, countless, sumless, measureless
  • innumerable, immeasurable, incalculable, illimitable, inexhaustible, interminable, unfathomable, unapproachable
  • exhaustless, indefinite
  • without number, without measure, without limit, without end
  • incomprehensible
  • limitless, endless, boundless, termless
  • untold, unnumbered, unmeasured, unbounded, unlimited
  • illimited
  • perpetual etc. [Endless duration.] Perpetuity.
Adverbs
  • infinitely etc. adj.
  • ad infinitum.
Phrases
  • as boundless as the sea" [Romeo and Juliet].