Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Impossible to see; not visible: Air is invisible.
- adj. Not accessible to view; hidden: mountain peaks invisible in the fog.
- adj. Not easily noticed or detected; inconspicuous: "The poor are politically invisible” ( Michael Harrington).
- adj. Not published in financial statements: an invisible asset.
- n. One that is invisible.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Not visible; incapable of being seen; imperceptible by the sight.
- Out of sight; concealed or withdrawn from view: as, he keeps himself invisible.
- n. A Rosicrucian: so called because of the secret character of the organization.
- n. One who rejects or denies the visible character or external organization of the church; specifically [capitalized], a name given to certain German Protestants because they maintained that the church of Christ might be, and sometimes had been, invisible.
Wiktionary
- adj. physics, optics Unable to be seen; not visible.
- adj. Internet Apparently, but not actually, offline.
- adj. psychology That is ignored by a person.
- n. obsolete An invisible person or thing; specifically, God, the Supreme Being.
- n. obsolete A Rosicrucian; so called because avoiding declaration of his craft.
- n. obsolete One of those (as in the 16th century) who denied the visibility of the church.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Incapable of being seen; not perceptible by vision; not visible.
- adj. Not visible due to an inherent property, such as lack of color; .
- adj. hidden from view; out of sight
- adj. Not perceptible due to lack of light
- adj. Too small or too distant to be perceived.
- adj. Hidden from the public.
- adj. imperceptible to the mind.
- n. An invisible person or thing; specifically, God, the Supreme Being.
- n. obsolete A Rosicrucian; -- so called because avoiding declaration of his craft.
- n. (Eccl. Hist.) One of those (as in the 16th century) who denied the visibility of the church.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. not prominent or readily noticeable
- adj. impossible or nearly impossible to see; imperceptible by the eye
Examples
“The _invisible_ life on this planet is unquestionably far greater than the _visible_ but both visible and invisible doubtless belong to the planet earth.”
“Warren Samuels, a professor at Michigan University who died in August, set about investigating what the originator of the term invisible hand, the influential 18th-century economic thinker Adam Smith, meant by the term and examine how it is applied.”
“He described how current offshoots like al-Awlaki's al-Qaedaof the Arabian Peninsula in Yemen are cooperating with militants in Somalia, describing what he called an "invisible bridge" between the two.”
“The atomic gear fits nicely with the thrust of Sanborn's oeuvre, which centers on what he calls invisible forces.”
“In such an environment with such a strong spirit of times – which I call the invisible prison – there is no critical gravitation when it comes to such results.”
“Not wanting to disappoint what he calls his invisible audience.”
“Even in private, he played the role of his most envied characters, not wanting to disappoint what he calls his invisible audience.”
“Even in private, he played the role of his most envied character, not wanting to disappoint what he calls his invisible audience.”
“It only happened a few times, but pilots reported hitting what they referred to as an invisible wall when they were a specific number of nautical miles out into the strait.”
“They are what we call invisible rays; and not until the temperature of the wire has reached nearly 1,000°”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘invisible’.
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Linda(G4)
Accurate, address, afford, alert, analyze, ancestor, annual, apparent, arena, arrest, ascend, assist and 126 more...
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EN - academic vocabulary
Use these and get promoted
abandon, abandonment, abnormally, abstract, abstraction, abstractly, abstracts, academia, academic, academically, academics, academies and 3119 more...
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goodkitten's list
there is going to be a lot of words...
flammivomous, pep, electrolyzation, research, constrain, why, refrigerator, invisible, windblown, curate's egg, echoism, drumble and 103 more...
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ghost
This is Ghost List 2 ( the kind that go 'boo!' ) :P
( open list )
more:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/macabrephantom, spectral, specter, spectre, spooky, poltergeist, haunt, spirit, banshee, cryptic, shadow, phantasm and 311 more...
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Specifically
Being a list of words which have "specifically" in their definitions.
recompose, specifically, Dutch, abstinence, discipline, virtue, namely, opening, century, amalgamation, cup, second and 303 more...
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Introverted
Quiet, shy, Introverted, reserved, isolated, mysterious
abashed, alienated, alone, anonymous, antisocial, ascetic, asocial, austere, autonomous, awkward, bashful, clannish and 91 more...
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National Library Agenda Summit
nla2006, summit, agenda, library, ala, diversity, education, learning, continuous, scan, environmental, plan and 646 more...
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cindywrites's Words
chiaroscuro, mollycoddle, feckless, evocative, provocative, invocation, beckon, allay, becalm, console, lull, soothe and 479 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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Necessary?
"Words are very..."
The above was the original description for this list. Unfortunately, it doesn't convey much about the list contents.
I'm leaving you to draw your own conclusions abo...supererogation, fruitcake, unbeknownst, melifluous, bane, cavy, unnecessary, lyrical, question, undertow, weapon, arduous and 200 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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feeling words
twitterpated, loquacious, ambiguous, pensive, sluggish, anxious, adventurous, curious, abandoned, absent-minded, abrasive, abused and 653 more...
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mandarine's Words
antepenultimate, metonymy, synecdoche, pop, kern, inherit, clique, scrumptious, macerate, murmur, kerning, veranda and 1068 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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Under Milk Wood
moonless, night, starless, bible-black, cobblestreets, silent, hunched, courters-and-rabbits, invisible, limping, sloeblack, crowblack and 95 more...
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junestag's Words
postmodernism, cat, fish, rabbit, dell, coffee, elearning, mazda, php, mysql, flash, blogger and 755 more...
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