With its negative prefix in-, inaudible means the opposite of audible. What's clearly audible to you may be inaudible to your elderly grandfather. Modern spy technology can turn inaudible conversations into audible ones with the use of high-powered directional microphones, so if you think you're being spied on, make sure there's a lot of other noise around you. And if you don't want everyone around you to know you're bored, keep your sighs inaudible.
Examples of inaudible in a Sentence
She spoke so quietly that she was almost inaudible.
The sound is inaudible to humans but can be heard by dogs.
Recent Examples on the WebThe increasing popularity of electric vehicles has brought about a situation in which cars can be dangerously inaudible to pedestrians.—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024 For some, spasms push the vocal cords too far apart, creating breathy and nearly inaudible speech.—James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2024 The video stitches together shots of Dua laying down vocals, writing lyrics in a notebook and jamming out to inaudible beats.—Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 3 Apr. 2024 Does a German audience care about the [inaudible 00:04:15] of that system?—Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Feb. 2024 In the first video circulating all over social media, Gomez approaches Swift and Keller’s table, and can be seen whispering something inaudible that causes both of the other women’s jaws to drop.—Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 8 Jan. 2024 The problem is that their motors cause electromagnetic interference on the same frequency bands in which AM radio operates, in some cases making the already fuzzy medium inaudible.—Jacob Stern, The Atlantic, 21 Feb. 2024 Several right-wing social media users have gone viral as of late by claiming AMC has sought to sabotage screenings by evacuating theaters, making the audio inaudible, or shutting off the air conditioning.—Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 16 July 2023 As for Blunt, the Oppenheimer somehow sparked divorce rumors with husband John Krasinski over an inaudible red carpet conversation.—Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 13 Jan. 2024
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Word History
Etymology
Late Latin inaudibilis, from Latin in- + Late Latin audibilis audible
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