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INDISCERNIBLE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does indiscernible mean?
• INDISCERNIBLE (adjective)
The adjective INDISCERNIBLE has 2 senses:
1. difficult or impossible to perceive or discern
2. barely able to be perceived
Familiarity information: INDISCERNIBLE used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Difficult or impossible to perceive or discern
Context example:
an indiscernible increase in temperature
Antonym:
discernible (perceptible by the senses or intellect)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Barely able to be perceived
Synonyms:
indiscernible; insensible; undetectable
Context example:
an almost insensible change
Similar:
imperceptible; unperceivable (impossible or difficult to perceive by the mind or senses)
Context examples
In various unrevealed capacities he had come in contact with such people but always with indiscernible barbed wire between.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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