visible
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Adjective (3)
- capable of being seen; or open to easy view“a visible object”“visible stars”“mountains visible in the distance”“a visible change of expression”“visible files”Synonyms: seeableSimilar in sight, macroscopic, subgross, viewable, megascopic, panoptic, telescopic, microscopic +2 moreSee also perceptible
- obvious to the eye“a visible change of expression”Opposite covertSimilar overt, open
- present and easily available“a visible supply”“visible resources”Opposite unavailableSimilar available
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Translations
Adjective able to be seen
- Spanish
- visible
- French
- visible
- German
- sichtbar
- Italian
- visibile
- Portuguese
- visível
- Turkish
- görülebilir
- Russian
- ви́димый vídimyj
- Arabic
- مَرْئِيّ marʔiyy
- Chinese
- 看得见 kàn de jiàn
- Japanese
- 目に見える me ni mieru
23 more languages
- Dutch
- zichtbaar
- Polish
- widoczny
- Swedish
- synlig
- Greek
- ορατός oratós
- Vietnamese
- khả kiến
- Hungarian
- látható
- Portuguese (PT)
- visível
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 看得見 kàn de jiàn
- Albanian
- dukshëm
- Breton
- hewel
- Catalan
- visible
- Czech
- viditelný
- Danish
- synlig
- Esperanto
- videbla
- Finnish
- näkyvä
- Georgian
- შესამჩნევი šesamčnevi
- Hebrew
- נראה nir'eh
- Icelandic
- sýnilegur
- Latvian
- redzams
- Norwegian
- synlig
- Romanian
- vizibil
- Serbo-Croatian
- vidljiv
- Welsh
- gweladwy
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: L. visibilis, fr. videre, visum, to see: cf. F. visible. See Vision.
1. Perceivable by the eye; capable of being seen; perceptible; in view; as, a visible star; the least spot is visible on white paper.
Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible.— Bk. of Com. Prayer.
Virtue made visible in outward grace.— Edward Young
2. Noticeable; apparent; open; conspicuous. William Shakespeare
The factions at court were greater, or more visible, than before.— Edward Hyde, first earl of Clarendon
Visible church Theology, the apparent church of Christ on earth; the whole body of professed believers in Christ, as contradistinguished from the invisible, or real, church, consisting of sanctified persons. — Visible horizon. Same as Apparent horizon, under Apparent.
— Vis′wb-a1′>′i·ble·ness, noun — Vis′wb-a1′>′i·bly, adverb
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54