inaudible
/ɪnˈɔːdɪb(ə)l
/adjective
Unable to be heard: inaudible pulses of high-frequency sound...
- And each time I left the little rooms I would hear another almost inaudible sigh of relief from behind me.
- I had to lean close to his face to hear the almost inaudible reply.
- Other mammals can hear frequencies that are inaudible to humans, both lower and higher.
Synonyms
unheard, not heard, out of earshot;
hard to hear, hard to make out, indistinct, imperceptible, faint, muted, soft, low, muffled, stifled, whispered, muttered, murmured, mumbled
Derivatives
inaudibility
/ noun ...- The Spanish health minister was heckled into inaudibility at the conference's opening ceremony, but that protest took place in a cavernous sports arena and lasted only 10 minutes.
- ‘Free me… ‘the words were whispered, quiet almost to the point of inaudibility.’
- Too many poets, reading aloud, ignore their own linebreaks or chew consonants like gristle or drop into inaudibility at the ends of lines.
inaudibly
/ adverb ...- Since I hadn't the energy to get up and improve matters, the record played on almost inaudibly.
- Quietly, almost inaudibly, he whispered, ‘They're family.’
- ‘Oh, why did I not realize this before,’ he said quietly, almost inaudibly.
Origin
Late Middle English: from late Latin inaudibilis, from in- 'not' + audibilis (see audible).