Umpteen
det, slang
det, slang ·2 syllables ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 innumerable but many wordnet
Determiner
- 1 Relatively large but unspecified in number. informal
"She's taking umpteen friends with her to the party."
Antonyms
All antonymsExample
More examples"It won't work. I've already tried it umpteen times."
Etymology
From ump (“colloquial name for the dash "—" in Morse code”) + -teen. Unrelated to ump as in "umpire", simply a mnemonic rhyming aid.