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Word Meanings - DISCERNIBLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Capable of being discerned by the eye or the understanding; as, a star is discernible by the eye; the identity of difference of ideas is discernible by the understanding. The effect of the privations and sufferings . . . was discernible to the last

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Capable of being discerned by the eye or the understanding; as, a star is discernible by the eye; the identity of difference of ideas is discernible by the understanding. The effect of the privations and sufferings . . . was discernible to the last in his temper and deportment. Macaulay. Syn. -- Perceptible; distinguishable; apparent; visible; evident; manifest.

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  • CLEARLY
    In a clear manner.
  • CLEARER
    A tool of which the hemp for lines and twines, used by sailmakers, is finished. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, clears. Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding. Addison.
  • PLAINTIVE
    1. Repining; complaining; lamenting. Dryden. 2. Expressive of sorrow or melancholy; mournful; sad. "The most plaintive ditty." Landor. -- Plain"tive*ly, adv. -- Plain"tive*ness, n.
  • EVIDENTIARY
    Furnishing evidence; asserting; proving; evidential. When a fact is supposed, although incorrectly, to be evidentiary of, a mark of, some other fact. J. S. Mill.
  • CONSPICUOUS
    1. Open to the view; obvious to the eye; easy to be seen; plainly visible; manifest; attracting the eye. It was a rock Of alabaster, piled up to the clouds, Conspicious far. Milton. Conspicious by her veil and hood, Signing the cross, the abbess
  • PALPABLE
    1. Capable of being touched and felt; perceptible by the touch; as, a palpable form. Shak. Darkness must overshadow all his bounds, Palpable darkness. Milton. 2. Easily perceptible; plain; distinct; obvious; readily perceived and detected; gross;
  • PLAINTIFF
    One who commences a personal action or suit to obtain a remedy for an injury to his rights; -- opposed to Ant: defendant. (more info) French equiv. to plaignant complainant, prosecutor, fr. plaindre. See
  • APPARENTLY
    1. Visibly. Hobbes. 2. Plainly; clearly; manifestly; evidently. If he should scorn me so apparently. Shak. 3. Seemingly; in appearance; as, a man may be apparently friendly, yet malicious in heart.
  • CLEAR-HEADED
    Having a clear understanding; quick of perception; intelligent. "He was laborious and clear-headed." Macaulay. -- Clear"-head`ed*ness, n.
  • VISIBLE
    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
  • CLEAR-SIGHTEDNESS
    Acute discernment.
  • PLAINT
    A private memorial tendered to a court, in which a person sets forth his cause of action; the exhibiting of an action in writing. Blackstone. (more info) planctum , to beat, beat the breast, lament. Cf. 1. Audible expression of sorrow;
  • OBVIOUS
    1. Opposing; fronting. To the evil turn My obvious breast. Milton. 2. Exposed; subject; open; liable. "Obvious to dispute." Milton. 3. Easily discovered, seen, or understood; readily perceived by the eye or the intellect; plain; evident;
  • PLAINLY
    In a plain manner; clearly.
  • VISIBLE SPEECH
    A system of characters invented by Prof. Alexander Melville Bell to represent all sounds that may be uttered by the speech organs, and intended to be suggestive of the position of the organs of speech in uttering them.
  • CLEAR-SEEING
    Having a clear physical or mental vision; having a clear understanding.
  • DISCERNIBLENESS
    The quality of being discernible.
  • PLAIN-SPOKEN
    Speaking with plain, unreserved sincerity; also, spoken sincerely; as, plain-spoken words. Dryden.
  • PLAINTLESS
    Without complaint; unrepining. "Plaintless patience." Savage.
  • MANIFESTATION
    The act of manifesting or disclosing, or the state of being manifested; discovery to the eye or to the understanding; also, that which manifests; exhibition; display; revelation; as, the manifestation of God's power in creation. The secret manner
  • INDISTINGUISHABLE
    Not distinguishable; not capable of being perceived, known, or discriminated as separate and distinct; hence, not capable of being perceived or known; as, in the distance the flagship was indisguishable; the two copies were indisguishable in form
  • INDIVISIBLE
    Not capable of exact division, as one quantity by another; incommensurable. (more info) 1. Not divisible; incapable of being divided, separated, or broken; not separable into parts. "One indivisible point of time." Dryden.
  • POLYNUCLEAR
    Containing many nuclei.
  • INEVIDENT
    Not evident; not clear or obvious; obscure.
  • CHAMPLAIN PERIOD
    A subdivision of the Quaternary age immediately following the Glacial period; -- so named from beds near Lake Champlain. Note: The earlier deposits of this period are diluvial in character, as if formed in connection with floods attending
  • EXPLAIN
    out+plandare to make level or plain, planus plain: cf. OF. esplaner, 1. To flatten; to spread out; to unfold; to expand. The horse-chestnut is . . . ready to explain its leaf. Evelyn. 2. To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear
  • DIVISIBLE
    Capable of being divided or separated. Extended substance . . . is divisible into parts. Sir W. Hamilton. Divisible contract , a contract containing agreements one of which can be separated from the other. -- Divisible offense , an offense
  • SUBDIVISIBLE
    Susceptible of subdivision.

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