Word of the Day:

: capable of being perceived especially by the senses

The smell of onions in the kitchen was barely perceptible to me, but Laura found it overwhelmingly pungent.

More example sentences

If something is "perceptible," you can "capture" it with your senses. "Perceptible" traces back to the Latin word "capere," which means "to take," combined with the prefix "per-," which means "thoroughly." It shares the "capere" part of its ancestry with a number of other English words related to seizing or being seized, including "capture," "captor," "captivate," and even "catch."