visible

English

Etymology

From Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin visibilis (“that may be seen”), from Latin videre (“to see”), past participle visus; see vision.

Pronunciation

• enPR: vĭz'ə-bəl, IPA: /ˈvɪzəb(ə)l/, X-SAMPA: /v"Iz@b(@)l/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

Adjective

visible (comparative more visible, superlative most visible)

1. Able to be seen.

Antonyms

• invisible

Related terms

• evidence
• visage
• visibility
• vision
• visionary
• visual
• visualization
• visualize

Translations

able to be seen

• Afrikaans: sigbaar (af)
• Albanian: dukshëm (sq)
• Arabic: منظور (ar) (manẓūr)
• Asturian: visible (ast)
• Bulgarian: видим (bg) (vidim) m
• Catalan: visible (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 看得見 (cmn), 看得见 (cmn) (kàn de jiàn), 可看見的 (cmn), 可看见的 (cmn) (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

• Galician: visible (gl)
• German: sichtbar (de)
• Greek: ορατός (el) (oratós)
• Hebrew: נראה (he) (nir'eh)

• Hungarian: látható (hu)
• Irish: infheicthe (ga), sofheicthe (ga), le feiceáil (ga)
• Italian: visibile (it)
• Japanese: 見える (ja) (みえる, mieru), 目に見える (ja) (めにみえる, me ni mieru)
• Korean: 보이는 (ko) (boineun)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: دیار (ku)

• Manx: so-akin (gv)
• Norwegian: synlig (no)
• Occitan: visible (oc)
• Old French: veable
• Polish: widoczny (pl)
• Portuguese: visível (pt)
• Romanian: vizibil (ro) m and n
• Russian: видимый (ru) (vídimyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: видљив (sh), видан (sh), уочљив (sh)

  Roman: vidljiv (sh), vidan (sh), uočljiv (sh)

• Spanish: visible (es)
• Swedish: synlig (sv)

External links

• visible in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• visible in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

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Catalan

Adjective

visible m, f (masculine and feminine plural visibles)

1. visible

Antonyms

• invisible

Derived terms

• visiblement

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French

Pronunciation

• audio

  (file)

• IPA: /visiblə/

Adjective

visible (masculine and feminine, plural visibles)

1. visible

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Galician

Alternative forms

• visíbel

Adjective

visible m and f (plural visibles)

1. visible

Antonyms

• invisible

Derived terms

• visiblemente

Related terms

• visibilidade

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Spanish

Adjective

visible m and f (plural visibles)

1. visible

Related terms

• ver
• visión
• vista