Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Impossible to hear: an inaudible conversation.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Not audible; incapable of being heard: as, an inaudible whisper.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Not audible; incapable of being heard; silent.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. impossible to hear; imperceptible by the ear
Etymologies
- in- + audible (Wiktionary)
Examples
“We have a project which we call our inaudible project.”
Barrick Gold CEO Discusses Q3 2010 Results - Earnings Call Transcript -- Seeking Alpha
“When they stop the music and speak, it is in inaudible half-whispers: for each other alone.”
“The history is roughly this; the early universe, in the first submicroseconds, was extremely [word inaudible] and all of the cosmic particles, protons, electrons, unstable nuclear particles, neutrinos and photons and background radiation were all hot and were all together.”
“And so to clarify matters we often need to work with a very [word inaudible] model, that has no particular connection with any particular country.”
“(6%) 6063 [Telephony] voice calls inaudible most of the time, but not through speakers or earplugs”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘inaudible’.
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@vcb.etym.prjct - SAT WORD DUMP - as ...
The words on this list SAT regulars that I haven't sorted and grouped yet. It's like my wordy holding pen. get it? holding the pen to write a word? HA! I love how lame my humor is.
iconoclast, glacial, agnostic, histrionic, treacly, contemptuous, captious, bombastic, bombast, perfidy, quiescence, sordid and 148 more...
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POL - presidential debates
Some of the catchwords of several presidential debates (Obama-Romney 2012 Denver debate's transcript fully included)
preexist, crosstalk, figure skate, preexisting, spending cut, preconceive, zinger, excruciate, ask over, miniaturize, food stamp, Medicare and 150 more...
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sound (quiet)
words for quiet sounds
( randomness, descriptive )sigh, murmur, whisper, whir, rustle, patter, hum, snap, hiss(sss), crackle, bleat, peep and 185 more...
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Descriptions of Sound
jingling, gurgling, horrisonous, horrisonant, crepitant, screeching, ringing, sonorous, clamorous, rattling, roaring, breathy and 71 more...
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Shakespurian drivel
swagger, zany, undress, puke, eyeball, inaudible, pander, besmirch, bandit, equivocal, marketable, mimic
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tragedy of the commons
insomnia, arabesque, carousal, lucifer, riot, submerge, initiate, indigo, existence, magenta, opus, sleeplessness and 145 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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Coined by Shakespeare
William Shakespeare had a masterful command of the English language. But did you know he helped create it? Here's just a few of the words first used by the Bard in his plays.
alligator, dawn, lonely, drug, eyeball, undress, puke, domineering, inaudible, pander, amazement, leapfrog and 3 more...
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"Silent" Adjectives
silent, noiseless, voiceless, quiet, speechless, hushed, inaudible, mute, muted, soundless, still, faint and 12 more...
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Tickle My Ears!
Words used to describe one's voice.
low, high-pitched, deep, booming, lilting, whispery, hoarse, raspy, throaty, angelic, male, female and 38 more...
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seanahan It just doesn't seem fair to include simple prefixation in his word count, especially since there were so many words he deserves full credit for. Sep 3, 2009
qroqqa Someone must have coined it, and this is believable. This and 'amazement' are just the sort of thing that would be readily understood by his audience, and count towards the huge total of words he supposedly introduced. 'Audible' is known from 1529, and 'invisible' is ancient; someone must have been first to make the analogy, so why not the Bard? Sep 2, 2009
seanahan "in" is a fairly productive prefix, and it surely must have existed in Shakespeare's time. Is it fair to credit Shakespeare with it, even if it is first attested in his play? Sep 2, 2009
tbtabby Shakespeare added the "in-."
All's Well That Ends Well, Act 5, Scene 3:
"We are old, and on our quick'st decrees / Th' inaudible and noiseless foot of time / Steals ere we can effect them." Sep 2, 2009