audible

English

Etymology

BorrowedfromMiddle Frenchaudible,fromLate Latinaudibilis,fromLatinaudire(“to hear”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/ˈɔːdɪbəl/

• Audio(Southern England):

  (file)

Adjective

audible(comparativemoreaudible,superlativemostaudible)

1. Able to beheard.

   Synonyms:hearable,sounded,vocal

   • 1881–1882,Robert Louis Stevenson,Treasure Island,London; Paris:Cassell & Company,published 14 November 1883,→OCLC:

     "Now, look here, Jim Hawkins," he said, in a steady whisper, that was no more thanaudible[…]

Antonyms

• inaudible
• quiet
• silent

Derived terms

• audibility
• audibilize
• audibleness
• audibly
• nonaudible
• semiaudible
• subaudible
• superaudible
• unaudible

Related terms

• audio
• auditory

Translations

able to be heard

• Arabic:مسموع
• Bulgarian:чуваем(čuvaem),доловим(bg)(dolovim)
• Catalan:oïble,audible(ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin:Nghe thấy／Nghe thấy(zh)(tīng dé jiàn de)

• Czech:slyšitelný(cs)m
• Danish:hørbar(da),hørlig(da)
• Dutch:hoorbaar(nl)
• Esperanto:aŭdebla
• Finnish:kuuluva(fi)
• French:audible(fr)
• Galician:audíbel(gl)
• German:hörbar(de)
• Greek:ακουστός(el)(akoustós)
• Hungarian:hallható(hu)
• Irish:inchloiste,inchluinte
• Italian:udibile(it)
• Japanese:Nhưng thính な(kachō na),Nhĩ に nghe こえる(ja)(mimi ni kikoeru),Âm がする(oto ga suru)
• Latin:audibilis
• Macedonian:чуенm(čuen)
• Manx:so-chlashtyn,clashtynagh,cluinagh
• Marathi:श्राव्य(śrāvya)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål:hørbar,hørlig

  Nynorsk:høyrleg

• Old English:ġehīerendlīċ
• Polish:słyszalny(pl)
• Portuguese:audível(pt)
• Romanian:auzibil
• Russian:слы́шный(ru)(slýšnyj),слы́шимый(ru)(slýšimyj)
• Scottish Gaelic:so-chlaistinneach,cluinntineach,so-chluinntinn,so-chloiste,osgarra,labhar
• Serbo-Croatian:čujan(sh)
• Spanish:oíble,audible(es)
• Swedish:hörbar(sv)
• Turkish:işitilir(tr),işitilebilir,duyulur(tr),duyulabilir
• Ukrainian:чу́тний(čútnyj)
• Welsh:clywadwy(cy),clywedog,hyglyw(cy),trylais

Verb

audible(third-person singular simple presentaudibles,present participleaudibling,simple past and past participleaudibled)

1. (intransitive,American football)To change the play at theline of scrimmageby yelling out a new one.

   The quarterbackaudibledafter seeing the defensive formation.

Noun

audible(pluralaudibles)

1. (American football)The act of or an instance of changing the play at theline of scrimmageby yelling out a new one.

   Theaudiblechanged the play to a run.

Derived terms

• call an audible

Catalan

Etymology

BorrowedfromLate Latinaudibilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):(Central,Balearic)[əwˈðib.blə]
• IPA^(key):(Valencia)[awˈði.ble]

Adjective

audiblemorf(masculine and feminine pluralaudibles)

1. audible

   Synonym:oïble

   Antonyms:inaudible,inoïble

Derived terms

• inaudible

Further reading

• “audible”inDiccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició,Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “audible”,inGran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana,Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana,2024
• “audible”inDiccionari normatiu valencià,Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “audible”inDiccionari català-valencià-balear,Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

BorrowedfromLate Latinaudibilis.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Adjective

audible(pluralaudibles)

1. audible

   Antonym:inaudible

Derived terms

• audiblement
• inaudible

Further reading

• “audible”,inTrésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language],2012.

Spanish

Etymology

BorrowedfromLate Latinaudibilis.Doubletofoíble.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/auˈdible/[au̯ˈð̞i.β̞le]
• Rhymes:-ible
• Syllabification:au‧di‧ble

Adjective

audiblemorf(masculine and feminine pluralaudibles)

1. audible

   Synonym:oíble

   Antonym:inaudible

Derived terms

• audibilidad
• audiblemente
• inaudible
• registro audible

Further reading

• “audible”,inDiccionario de la lengua española[Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7,Royal Spanish Academy[Spanish:Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28