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Impossible to make out
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indiscernible
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Word definitions for indiscernible in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1630s, from in- (1) "not, opposite of" + discernible . Related: Indiscernibly ; indiscernibility .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Not capable of being discerned, of being perceived. 2 Not capable of being distinguished from something else. n. (context chiefly philosophy English) Something which is incapable of being discerned.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ The crack in the windshield was almost indiscernible . EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Her nod was indiscernible , with no appeal as to what and whom Ezra wanted to talk about.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. difficult or impossible to perceive or discern; "an indiscernible increase in temperature" [ant: discernible ] barely able to be perceived; "the transition was almost indiscernible"; "an almost insensible change" [syn: insensible , undetectable ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Indiscernible \In`dis*cern"i*ble\, a. [Pref. in- not + discernible: cf. F. indiscernable.] Not to be discerned; imperceptible; not discoverable or visible. Secret and indiscernible ways. --Jer. Taylor. -- In`dis*cern"i*ble*ness , n. -- In`dis*cern"i*bly ...
Usage examples of indiscernible.
I see a man with hair white as snow, beplumed as a bird, his eyes almost indiscernible, covered as they are by snowy, drooping lashes.
She looked in on Louie, but decided not to take him from his gadgeteering, and made for the ready-room, where she found Angelo nursing a drink in the dark, silently regarding the distant fortress, a black shape all but indiscernible from the ridgeline's numerous stone outcroppings and buttresses.
But Mappings covering such a short distance were brief and isomorphic: she felt the same coming out of the destination station as entering it (just as, of course, principles of the identity of indiscernible objects predicted she should).