Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget
3. INDETERMINATE NUMBER
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#100. [More than one.] Plurality.—N. plurality; a number,
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a certain number; one or two, two or three &c.; a few, several;
multitude
&c. 102; majority.
[large number] multitude &c. 102.
Adj. plural, more than one, upwards of; some, several, a few;
certain;
not alone &c. 87.
Adv. et cetera, &c., etc.
among other things, inter alia[Lat].
Phr. non deficit alter [Lat].
#100a. [Less than one.] Fraction—N. fraction, fractional part; part
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&c. 51.
Adj. fractional, fragmentary, inconsiderable, negligible,
infinitesimal.
#101. Zero.—N. zero, nothing; null, nul, naught, nought, void;
cipher, goose egg; none, nobody, no one; nichts[Ger.], nixie*, nix*;
zilch, zip, zippo [all slang]; not a soul; ame qui vive[Fr]; absence
&c. 187; unsubstantiality &c. 4[obs3]. Adj. 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.
#102. Multitude.—N. multitude; numerous &c. adj.; numerosity,
numerality; multiplicity; profusion &c. (plenty) 639; 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 &c. (assemblage) 72; lots; all
in the world and his wife. [Increase of number] greater number,
majority; multiplication, multiple. V. be numerous &c. adj.; swarm
with, teem with, creep with; crowd, swarm, come thick upon; outnumber,
multiply; people; swarm like locusts, swarm like bees. Adj. 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 &c.; half a dozen,
half a hundred &c.; very many, full many, ever so many; numerous;
numerose[obs3]; 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; cum multis aliis[Lat];
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
&c. (infinite) 105. Phr. their name is "legion"; acervatim[Lat]; en
foule[Fr]; "many- headed multitude" [Sidney]; "numerous as glittering
gems of morning dew" [Young]; vel prece vel pretio[Lat][obs3].
#103. Fewness.—N. fewness &c. adj.; paucity, small number; small
quantity &c. 32; rarity; infrequency &c. 137; handful, maniple;
minority; exiguity. [Diminution of number] reduction; weeding &c. v.;
elimination, sarculation|, decimation; eradication. V. be few &c. adj.
render few &c. adj.; reduce, diminish the number, weed, eliminate,
cull, thin, decimate. Adj. few; scant, scanty; thin, rare, scattered,
thinly scattered, spotty, few and far between, exiguous; infrequent &c.
137; rari nantes[Latin]; hardly any, scarcely any; to be counted on
one's fingers; reduced &c. v.; unrepeated[obs3]. Adv. rarely, here and
there.
#104. Repetition.—N. repetition, iteration, reiteration, harping,
recurrence, succession, run; battology, tautology; monotony,
tautophony; rhythm &c. 138; diffuseness, pleonasm, redundancy. chimes,
repetend, echo, ritornello[obs3], burden of a song, refrain; rehearsal;
rechauffe[Fr], rifacimento[It], recapitulation. cuckoo &c. (imitation)
19; reverberation &c. 408; drumming &c. (roll) 407; renewal &c.
(restoration) 660. twice-told tale; old story, old song; second
edition, new edition; reappearance, reproduction, recursion [Comp];
periodicity &c. 138. V. repeat, iterate, reiterate, reproduce, echo,
reecho, drum, harp upon, battologize[obs3], hammer, redouble. recur,
revert, return, reappear, recurse [Comp]; renew &c. (restore) 660.
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 inflexions[obs3], begin again, go over the same
ground, go the same round, never hear the last of; resume, return to,
recapitulate, reword. Adj. repeated &c. v.; repetitional[obs3],
repetitionary[obs3]; recurrent, recurring; ever recurring, thick
coming; frequent, incessant; redundant, pleonastic. monotonous,
harping, iterative, recursive [Math, Comp], unvaried; mocking, chiming;
retold; aforesaid, aforenamed[obs3]; above-mentioned, above-said;
habitual &c. 613; another. Adv. repeatedly, often, again, anew, over
again, afresh, once more; ding-dong, ditto, encore, de novo, bis[obs3],
da capo[It]. again and again; over and over, over and over again;
recursively [Comp]; many times over; time and again, time after time;
year after year; day by day &c.; many times, several times, a number of
times; many a time, full many a time; frequently &c. 136. Phr. ecce
iterum Crispinus[Lat]; toujours perdrix[Fr]; "cut and come again"
[Crabbe]; "tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow" [Macbeth]; cantilenam
eandem canis [Lat][Terence]; nullum est jam dictum quod non dictum sit
prius [Lat][Terence].
#105. Infinity.—N. infinity, infinitude, infiniteness &c. adj.;
perpetuity &c. 112; boundlessness. V. be infinite &c. adj.; know no
limits, have no limits, know no bounds, have no bounds; go on for ever.
Adj. infinite; immense; numberless, countless, sumless[obs3],
measureless; innumerable, immeasurable, incalculable, illimitable,
inexhaustible, interminable, unfathomable, unapproachable; exhaustless,
indefinite; without number, without measure, without limit, without
end; incomprehensible; limitless, endless, boundless, termless[obs3];
untold, unnumbered, unmeasured, unbounded, unlimited; illimited[obs3];
perpetual &c. 112. Adv. infinitely &c. adj.; ad infinitum. Phr. "as
boundless as the sea" [Romeo and Juliet].
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