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English
Etymology
From Middle English visible, from Old French visible, from Late Latin visibilis (“that may be seen”), from Latin videre (“to see”), past participle visus; see vision. Displaced native Old English ġesewenlīċ.
Pronunciation
- enPR: vĭz'ĭ-bəl, vĭz'ə-bəl, IPA(key): /ˈvɪzɪb(ə)l/, /ˈvɪzəb(ə)l/
- Rhymes: -ɪbəl
Adjective
visible (comparative more visible, superlative most visible)
- Able to be seen.
- Synonyms: apparent, seeable
- Antonyms: hidden, invisible, non-visible, nonvisible
When the sun rises, the world becomes visible.
1650, Thomas Browne, “Of the Cameleon”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC, 3rd book, page 133:It cannot be denied it [the chameleon] is (if not the moſt of any) a very abſtemious animall, and ſuch as by reaſon of its frigidity, paucity of bloud, and latitancy in the winter (about which time the obſervations are often made) will long ſubſist without a viſible ſuſtentation.
2013 May-June, William E. Conner, “An Acoustic Arms Race”, in American Scientist[1], volume 101, number 3, pages 206–7:Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close […] above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them. Many insects probably use this strategy, which is a close analogy to crypsis in the visible world—camouflage and other methods for blending into one’s visual background.
2025 August 20, Ashlyn Barry, Justin A. Haegele, Daniel Schaefer, Kristen A. Pickett, Luis Columna, “Autistic Young Adults’ Experiences and Recommendations for Strength Training”, in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders[2], →DOI:Participants perceived strength training as improving many aspects of their physical and mental health. Many appreciated the visible improvements in muscular strength and body composition.
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Translations
able to be seen
- Afrikaans: sigbaar
- Albanian: dukshëm
- Arabic: مَنْظُور (manẓūr)
- Armenian: տեսանելի (hy) (tesaneli)
- Asturian: visible
- Azerbaijani: görünən
- Belarusian: ба́чны (be) m (báčny)
- Breton: hewel (br)
- Bulgarian: ви́дим (bg) m (vídim)
- Catalan: visible (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 看得見 / 看得见 (zh) (kàn de jiàn), 可看見的 / 可看见的 (kě kànjiàn de)
- Czech: viditelný (cs) m
- Danish: synlig (da)
- Dutch: zichtbaar (nl), zichtbare (nl)
- Esperanto: videbla (eo)
- Finnish: näkyvä (fi)
- French: visible (fr)
- Old French: voiable
- Old French: veable
- Galician: visible (gl)
- Georgian: შესამჩნევი (šesamčnevi), დასანახი (dasanaxi), ხედვადი (xedvadi)
- German: sichtbar (de)
- Gothic: 𐌰𐌽𐌰𐍃𐌹𐌿𐌽𐍃 (anasiuns)
- Greek: ορατός (el) (oratós), φανερός (el) (fanerós)
- Ancient Greek: ὁρατός (horatós), φανερός (phanerós)
- Haitian Creole: vizib
- Hebrew: נראה (nir'eh)
- Hungarian: látható (hu)
- Icelandic: sýnilegur (is)
- Irish: infheicthe, sofheicthe, le feiceáil, feicseanach
- Italian: visibile (it)
- Japanese: 見える (ja) (みえる, mieru), 目に見える (めにみえる, me ni mieru), 顕在する (ja) (けんざいする, kenzai suru)
- Kashmiri: درٛینٛٹھمان (drēnṭhmān)
- Korean: 보이는 (boineun)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: دیار (ckb) (dyar)
- Latin: spectābilis, visibilis
- Latvian: redzams
- Macedonian: видлив (vidliv)
- Manx: so-akin
- Māori: ari
- Norwegian: synlig (no)
- Occitan: visible (oc)
- Old Church Slavonic: видимъ (vidimŭ)
- Old English: ġesewenlīċ
- Persian: پیدا (fa) (peydâ), هویدا (fa) (hoveydâ), ویدا (fa) (vidâ)
- Plautdietsch: sechtboa
- Polish: widoczny (pl), widzialny (pl)
- Portuguese: visível (pt)
- Punjabi: ਦ੍ਰਿਸ਼ਟੀਗੋਚਰ (driśṭīgocar)
- Romanian: vizibil (ro) m or n
- Russian: ви́димый (ru) (vídimyj)
- Sanskrit: दृश्य (sa) (dṛśya), दृष्ट (sa) (dṛṣṭa)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: вѝдљив, ви̑дан, уо̀чљив
- Latin: vìdljiv (sh), vȋdan (sh), uòčljiv (sh)
- Spanish: visible (es)
- Swedish: synlig (sv)
- Tagalog: tahaw, nakikita
- Turkish: görülebilir
- Ukrainian: ви́димий (uk) (výdymyj), ви́дний (výdnyj)
- Vietnamese: nhìn thấy được, khả kiến (vi)
- Walloon: veyåve (wa) m or f
- Woiwurrung: (please verify) nga-ga-din
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Further reading
- “visible”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “visible”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
Asturian
Adjective
visible (epicene, plural visibles)
- visible (able to be seen)
Catalan
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin vīsibilis.
Pronunciation
Adjective
visible m or f (masculine and feminine plural visibles)
- visible
- Antonym: invisible
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French
Etymology
From Latin visibilis.
Pronunciation
Adjective
visible (plural visibles)
- visible
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Galician
Alternative forms
Adjective
visible m or f (plural visibles)
- visible
- Antonym: invisible
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Old French
Etymology
Late 12th century, borrowed from Latin visibilis.
Adjective
visible m (feminine visible)
- visible (able to be seen)
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin vīsibilis (“that may be seen”), from Latin vīsus, perfect passive participle of videō (“to see”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /biˈsible/ [biˈsi.β̞le]
- Rhymes: -ible
- Syllabification: vi‧si‧ble
Adjective
visible m or f (masculine and feminine plural visibles)
- visible
- Antonym: invisible
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