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Too quiet to be heard
Answer for the clue "Too quiet to be heard ", 9 letters:
inaudible
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Word definitions for inaudible in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inaudible \In*au"di*ble\, a. [L. inaudibilis; pref. in- not + audire to hear: cf. F. unaudible. See In- not, and Audible .] Not audible; incapable of being heard; silent. -- In*au"di*ble*ness , n. -- In*au"di*bly , adv.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB almost ▪ Dong's answer came in an almost inaudible whisper. ▪ You permit yourself an almost inaudible sigh and grin to yourself. EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Aunt Jessica let out an inaudible sigh. ▪ Her voice ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., "unfit to be heard;" c.1600, "unable to be heard," from Latin inaudibilis "inaudible," from in- ânotâ (see in- (1)) + audibilis (see audible ). Related: Inaudibly ; inaudibility .
Usage examples of inaudible.
Courtney Broadhead, after a sidelong glance at the tall man, said something inaudible and returned to the carriage.
De Guignes lingered yet a moment in the clearing and spoke to Lien: inaudible at the distance, but a question by his manner.
He aimed his paralyzer at the men around the altar and squeezed the button, swinging it from one to another and knocking them down with a bludgeon of inaudible sound.
She knows what those almost inaudible clicking and smacking noises always mean, that Ender was subvocalizing in order to talk with me.
Whatever the stuff was, it stuck like superglue, and it rendered her screams all but inaudible.
The great white owl rose from the oak tree and flapped away, his soft wings inaudible against the rising background of crickets, peeping frogs, and whippoorwills.
Antonov tossing back his vodka and Anderson sipping his bourbon more cautiously, muttering something inaudible about doctors.
I daresay that the place is now swarming with bridal couples, and it is because they are invisible and inaudible to us that it seems such a howling wilderness.
The firing itself was invisible and inaudible, but even as he pressed the manual control, the world turned strange around him, the energies released passing twistily through all their bones.
He perceived some difference on the Vaterland for which he could not account, and then he realised that the engines had slowed to an almost inaudible beat.
Bathed in that sickly radiance, dressed in elegant rags, the remnants of ball gowns and evening clothes, their movements graceful albeit somewhat stiff, pale couples circled to the inaudible rhythms of a sedate waltz—one inaudible at least to Beheim’s ear—avoiding the numerous small black pools, round as periods, that dotted the expanse, passing in and out of the shadow of colossal statues, warriors, beasts, and so forth, nine or ten of them, that sprouted up at irregular intervals like chesspieces in an endgame.
The best she could do was to laugh without engaging her vocal cords, so that the sounds came out of her in a series of almost inaudible chuffs, her hands pasted over her mouth, her cheeks as red as Mac apples, her eyes swimming with tears.
Menolly heard the noise from the apprentices' dormitory, and a soft, all but inaudible, creeling closer by.
Menolly heard the noise from the apprentices' dormi tory, and a soft, all but inaudible, creeling closer by.
He knew it because they weren't inaudible now but continued to make droning or whiffing sounds as they had during McNulty's attack.