imperceptible

Adjective

Meaning

Not perceptible; not to be apprehended or cognized by the souses; not discernible by the mind; not easily apprehended.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

unperceivable small soundless minor fine minute hidden slight tiny subtle invisible gradual obscure ultraviolet vague
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Antonyms

perceptible high large great clear heavy
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Phrases with the word

imperceptible to the touch become imperceptible be imperceptible more imperceptible

Examples

All the great and beneficent operations of Nature are produced by slow and often imperceptible degrees. The work of destruction and devastation only is violent and rapid. Albert Pike

Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God. Henry Adams

These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression she saw nothing but the sand; yet there were brighter moments when she felt nothing but joy, saw nothing but the gold. Leo Tolstoy

Nobody wants a girl whose beauty is imperceptible to all but him... Germaine Greer

God works in a mysterious way in grace as well as in nature, concealing His operations under an imperceptible succession of events, and thus keeps us always in the darkness of faith. François Fénelon

[Contagion] passes from one thing to another, and is originally caused by infection of the imperceptible particle. Fracastorius

Close letter words and terms

imperceivably imperceived imperceptibility imperceptible to the touch imperceptibleness imperceptibly