Invisible

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Invisible \In*vis"i*ble\, n.
     1. An invisible person or thing; specifically, God, the
        Supreme Being.
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     2. A Rosicrucian; -- so called because avoiding declaration


        of his craft. [Obs.]
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     3. (Eccl. Hist.) One of those (as in the 16th century) who
        denied the visibility of the church. --Shipley.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Invisible \In*vis"i*ble\, a. [F. invisible, L. invisibilis. See
     {In-} not, and {Visible}.]
     1. Incapable of being seen; not perceptible by vision; not
        visible. Specifically:
        (a) Not visible due to an inherent property, such as lack
            of color; as, the invisible air; invisible ink;
        (b) hidden from view; out of sight;
        (c) Not perceptible due to lack of light;
        (d) Too small or too distant to be perceived; as, people
            on the ground invisible at cruising altitude.
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                  To us invisible, or dimly seen
                  In these thy lowest works.        --Milton.
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     2. Hidden from the public; as, invisible transactions.
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     3. imperceptible to the mind; as, differences invisible to
        most observers.
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     {Invisible bird} (Zool.), a small, shy singing bird
        ({Myadestes sibilons}), of St. Vincent Islands.
  
     {Invisible green}, a very dark shade of green, approaching to
        black, and liable to be mistaken for it.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  invisible
       adj 1: impossible or nearly impossible to see; imperceptible by the
              eye; "the invisible man"; "invisible rays"; "an
              invisible hinge"; "invisible mending" [syn: {unseeable}]
              [ant: {visible}]
       2: not prominent or readily noticeable; "he pushed the string
          through an inconspicuous hole"; "the invisible man" [syn:
          {inconspicuous}] [ant: {conspicuous}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  63 Moby Thesaurus words for "invisible":
     atomic, behind the curtain, behind the scenes, camouflaged,
     concealed, corpuscular, covered, disguised, embryonic, evanescent,
     germinal, granular, hidden, impalpable, imperceptible,
     imponderable, inappreciable, indiscernible, infinitesimal,
     insensible, intangible, latent, masked, microcosmic, microscopic,
     molecular, out of sight, secret, sightless, subatomic, submerged,
     tenuous, thin, ultramicroscopic, unapparent, unappreciable,
     unbeheld, unbeholdable, undetected, undiscernible, undisclosed,
     undiscovered, undivulged, unexplained, unexplored, unexposed,
     unnoticed, unobservable, unobserved, unperceivable, unperceived,
     unrealized, unrevealed, unseeable, unseen, unsolved, unspied,
     untraced, untracked, unviewed, unwitnessed, veiled, viewless