invisible
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English invisible, from Old French invisible, from Late Latin invīsibilis. Displaced native Old English unġesewenlīċ.
Morphologically in- + visible.
Base: visible
Affixes: in-
Inflected forms:
form: invisibles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: invisibling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: invisibled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: invisibled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Unable to be seen; out of sight; not visible.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Unſpeakable, who ſitſt above theſe Heavens / To us inviſible or dimly ſeen / In theſe thy loweſt works,[…]
The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track.[…]Their example was followed by others at a time when the master of Mohair was superintending in person the docking of some two-year-olds, and equally invisible.
An interesting feature of the church is the invisible clock, which you can hear thumping away as you enter. Constructed in 1525, it is one of the oldest timepieces in England. It chimes the hours and the quarters, and every three hours it plays a hymn. But it has no faces.
Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.
The teeth on an invisible zip are different from those on a conventional zip, as they are turned onto the inside so that they do not show, giving the impression of being concealed in the seam, as seen below.
Soon after departure, we cross the invisible border into Scotland to enjoy more stunning coastal scenery, before the line finally swings inland at Burnmouth to traverse pine-clad valleys, shadowed by the A1 trunk road until we rejoin the coast at Cove, east of Dunbar.
gloss: Not appearing on the surface.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The physical covering of this image limited the Christians’ view, rendering the image invisible on all but a few occasions.
gloss: Apparently, but not actually, offline.
pos: adj
tags: Internet
not-comparable
examples: I went invisible so that my ex-girlfriend wouldn't send me instant messages.
gloss: That is ignored by a person.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: To make invisible, to invisiblize.
pos: verb
examples: In the next section I look at some of the factors that contribute to the “invisibling” of people in later life in terms of the marginalization and splitting that occurs in providing decent psychological as well as physical care.
Synonyms: disapparent
inapparent
inconspicuous
invis
invisible
inviso
nondisplayed
nonvisible
out of sight
sightless
unapparent
unconspicuous
uneyeable
unseeable
unseen
unspottable
unvisible
viewless
Antonyms: visible
Related words: invisibility
invisibilize
invisible kitchen
invisibleness
invisibly
cloaked
ghostlike
occult
offstage
Derived words: invisible bird
invisible export
invisible government
invisible green
invisible hand
invisible import
invisible ink
invisible lat syndrome
invisible minority
invisible primary
invisible rail
invisible restoration
invisible runner
invisible trade
invisible web
join the choir invisible
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