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.

   Synonyms: quiet, silent, soundless, voiceless

   Antonyms: audible, loud, vocal

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

   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXXII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, 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: անլսելի (hy) (anlseli), չլսվող (čʻlsvoġ), անձայն (hy) (anjayn)
• 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 (hu), hallhatatlan (hu)
• 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

Catalan

Etymology

From in- +‎ audible.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [i.nəwˈðib.blə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [i.nawˈði.ble]

Adjective

inaudible m or f (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, 2024
• “inaudible” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

French

Etymology

From 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.

Spanish

Etymology

From in- +‎ audible.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /inauˈdible/ [i.nau̯ˈð̞i.β̞le]
• Rhymes: -ible
• Syllabification: i‧nau‧di‧ble

Adjective

inaudible m or f (masculine and feminine plural inaudibles)

1. inaudible

   Antonyms: audible, oíble

Further reading

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