Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: discernible
IPA transcription: [dɪs'ɝnəbəl]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: discernible, discernable
    Meaning: perceptible by the senses or intellect; "things happen in the earth and sky with no discernible cause"; "the newspaper reports no discernible progress in the negotiations"; "the skyline is easily discernible even at a distance of several miles"
  • Synonyms: discernible
    Meaning: capable of being perceived clearly; "an essay with a meaning that was not always discernible"
Usage examples
  • Far away the sea was visible, rising high over the tops of the trees, while overhead the brighter stars were plainly discernible.
  • At the same moment the curtain of spray that screened the on-coming chaser died down, her fine and sinister lines becoming discernible.
  • When the cause is extrinsical, and the effect produced by a sensible separation, or juxta-position of discernible parts, we call it MAKING; and such are all artificial things.
  • By the dim light of an accidental lamp, tall, antique, worm-eaten, wooden tenements were seen tottering to their fall, in directions so many and capricious that scarce the semblance of a passage was discernible between them. The paving-stones lay at random, displaced from their beds by the rankly-growing grass.