as in invisible
not perceptible by a sense or by the mind
a slight difference in hue between the two glasses that's imperceptible unless they're placed side by side
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Recent Examples of imperceptible
There was chatter that recuts were happening post-Cannes, but the unchanged running time suggests those edits are imperceptible.
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Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 6 Oct. 2025
Then, instead of the tell-tale metal frame of futons in your college days, this sturdy metal frame is imperceptible, but can be adjusted into four different positions, including the fully flat full-size bed.
—Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 19 Sep. 2025
Tiny threats, imperceptible to the naked eye, are quietly undermining the health and resilience of not just one of the most formidable predators on our planet (creatures, mind you, that have survived for hundreds of millions of years) but any and all animals.
—Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Yet for all the focus now on the technology’s effects on jobs or geopolitics, what unsettles Altman most are the subtle, almost imperceptible cultural shifts that spread when millions of people interact with the same system every day.
—Preston Fore, Fortune, 11 Sep. 2025
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Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 6 Oct. 2025
Then, instead of the tell-tale metal frame of futons in your college days, this sturdy metal frame is imperceptible, but can be adjusted into four different positions, including the fully flat full-size bed.
—Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 19 Sep. 2025
Tiny threats, imperceptible to the naked eye, are quietly undermining the health and resilience of not just one of the most formidable predators on our planet (creatures, mind you, that have survived for hundreds of millions of years) but any and all animals.
—Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Yet for all the focus now on the technology’s effects on jobs or geopolitics, what unsettles Altman most are the subtle, almost imperceptible cultural shifts that spread when millions of people interact with the same system every day.
—Preston Fore, Fortune, 11 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for imperceptible
Adjective
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The correlation seemed to suggest that space was alive with invisible forces that bound together the variable environments of the Sun and Earth.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 Oct. 2025
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To make sense out of this tangle of connections and contingencies, many macroscopes employ computational models to reveal the key economic, medical, political, educational, or ecological relationships that are often invisible to all but the experts.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
27 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Featuring a subtle kick flare at the hem and chic pintuck detailing, they’re designed to hit right under the calf, or just at the ankle for petite people like myself.—
Sophie Dodd,
Travel + Leisure,
26 Oct. 2025
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Adding parsnips and turnips to the recipe gives the dish a subtle earthy flavor that perfectly complements the savory chicken.—
Sarah Martens,
Better Homes & Gardens,
25 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Large language models that devoured the total creative output of humankind endlessly remix those inputs to illustrate fictional universes of bespoke media, almost indistinguishable from reality (and getting better every day).—
Charlie Warzel,
The Atlantic,
20 Oct. 2025
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Their inhabitants have been forced off their land by a combination of settlers and the Army, which are often indistinguishable from each other.—
Isaac Chotiner,
New Yorker,
16 Oct. 2025
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“Imperceptible.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/imperceptible. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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