Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: perceptible
IPA transcription: [pɚs'ɛptəbəl]
Pronunciations of perceptible
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adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: perceptible
    Meaning: capable of being perceived by the mind or senses; "a perceptible limp"; "easily perceptible sounds"; "perceptible changes in behavior"
Usage examples
  • The rete mirabile is much developed in the sheep, but scarcely perceptible in the Cat.
  • A scarcely perceptible sign of question was made by the master, and answered in kind by the man.
  • There was a perceptible tinge of horror in the look of astonishment with which Dr. Danvers listened.
  • For that which makes no perceptible difference by its presence or absence is no real part of the whole.
  • The evils thereby affecting the superior class are less material and less perceptible, but equally real.
  • Know that beings are of two kinds: material and spiritual, those perceptible to the senses and those intellectual.
  • There was a perfectly perceptible pause, during which Miss Mapp noticed that there were no curtains over the window.
  • A faint odor was perceptible, the same odor he had detected in the carpet on the upper hallway of the Langmore mansion.
  • Passepartout shook it, but with no perceptible effect; for neither shaking nor maledictions could prevail upon it to change its mind.
  • The nature of the metal was not easily perceptible, for it was coated with slime, and covered over about half its surface with barnacles and sea-weed.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Catholic liturgy, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Battle of Fredericksburg, License CC BY-SA 4.0
2. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Fermi paradox, License CC BY-SA 4.0
3. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording J. R. R. Tolkien, License CC BY-SA 4.0