inaudible

inaudible

English

Etymology

From in- +‎ audible.

Pronunciation

• Audio (southern England)

  (file)

Adjective

inaudible (not comparable)

1. Unable to be heard or not loud enough to be heard.

   Dogs can hear this whistle, but for people it is inaudible.

   Synonyms: quiet, silent, soundless, voiceless

   Antonyms: audible, loud, vocal

   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), OCLC 630079698, page 267:

     At first his voice was almost inaudible; but soon the spirit mastered the body, and his hollow but distinct tones gained a supernatural strength.

Related terms

• inaudibly
• inaudibility

Translations

unable to be heard

Afrikaans: onhoorbaar Armenian: please add this translation if you can Belarusian: нячу́тны (njačútny) Bulgarian: недоловим (bg) (nedolovim) Catalan: inoïble, inaudible Dutch: onhoorbaar (nl) Esperanto: neaŭdebla Finnish: kuulumaton (fi) French: inaudible (fr) Galician: inaudible (gl), inaudíbel (gl) German: unhörbar (de), nicht zu hören Greek: Ancient: ἀνήκουστος (anḗkoustos) Hungarian: nem hallható, kivehetetlen, hallhatatlan Irish: dochloiste, dochluinte Japanese: 静かな (ja) (しずかな, shizuka na), 聞こえない (ja) (きこえない, kikoenai) Latin: inaudibilis Macedonian: нечуен (nečuen) Manx: neuchlastynagh, neuchluinagh Norwegian: Bokmål: uhørlig Nynorsk: uhøyrleg Polish: niesłyszalny (pl) Portuguese: inaudível (pt) Romanian: neauzibil, inauzibil Russian: неслы́шный (ru) (neslýšnyj) Spanish: inaudible (es) Swedish: ohörbar (sv) Ukrainian: нечу́тний (nečútnyj)

See also

• unlistenable

Anagrams

• unalibied

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Catalan

Etymology

in- +‎ audible

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /i.nəwˈdi.blə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /i.nawˈdi.ble/

Adjective

inaudible (masculine and feminine plural inaudibles)

1. inaudible

   Synonym: inoïble

   Antonyms: audible, oïble

Further reading

• “inaudible” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “inaudible”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “inaudible” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

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French

Etymology

in- +‎ audible

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.no.dibl/

• Audio

  (file)

Adjective

inaudible (plural inaudibles)

1. inaudible (unable to be heard or not loud enough to be heard)

   Synonym: audible

2. (derogatory) unlistenable (very unpleasant to listen to)

   Synonym: (rare) inécoutable

   Antonym: qui s'écoute

Derived terms

• inaudiblement

Further reading

• “inaudible”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Spanish

Etymology

in- +‎ audible

Adjective

inaudible (plural inaudibles)

1. inaudible

   Antonyms: audible, oíble

Further reading

• “inaudible”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014