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subtle
Difficult to understand; abstruse:
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  1. Difficult to understand; abstruse:
  2. Delicately suggestive; not grossly obvious
  3. So slight as to be difficult to detect or describe; elusive:
slight
Not stout or heavy; slender.
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  1. Not stout or heavy; slender.
  2. Lacking strength, substance, or solidity; frail:
  3. Small, weak, or gentle; not decidedly marked; not forcible; inconsiderable; unimportant; insignificant; not severe.
gradual
Taking place by almost imperceptible steps or degrees; developing little by little, not sharply or suddenly
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  1. Taking place by almost imperceptible steps or degrees; developing little by little, not sharply or suddenly
  2. Occurring or developing slowly or by small increments:
faint
Likely to fall into a faint; dizzy and weak:
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  1. Likely to fall into a faint; dizzy and weak:
  2. So weak as to be difficult to perceive;
  3. Lacking clarity or distinctness:
indistinct
Hazy; vague:
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  1. Hazy; vague:
  2. Not separate or separable; not clearly marked off; not plainly defined
  3. Not seen, heard, or perceived clearly; faint; dim; obscure
indiscernible
That cannot be discerned; imperceptible
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  1. That cannot be discerned; imperceptible
  2. Not capable of being discerned, of being perceived.
  3. Difficult or impossible to discern or perceive; imperceptible:
invisible
Not easily noticed or detected; inconspicuous:
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  1. Not easily noticed or detected; inconspicuous:
  2. Too small or too faint to be seen; imperceptible
  3. Not visible; that cannot be seen
intangible
Incapable of being realized or defined.
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  1. Incapable of being realized or defined.
  2. Designating or of any of certain business assets, esp. goodwill, that have no material being but have monetary value
  3. That cannot be easily defined, formulated, or grasped; vague
subliminal
Below the threshold of conscious perception. Used of stimuli.
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  1. Below the threshold of conscious perception. Used of stimuli.
  2. Below the threshold of consciousness or apprehension; specif., involving or using stimuli intended to take effect subconsciously by repetition
  3. Inadequate to produce conscious awareness but able to evoke a response:
impalpable
Not perceptible to the touch; intangible.
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  1. Not perceptible to the touch; intangible.
  2. Difficult to perceive or grasp by the mind.
  3. That cannot be felt by touching
imponderable
Not ponderable; without sensible or appreciable weight; incapable of being weighed.
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  1. Not ponderable; without sensible or appreciable weight; incapable of being weighed.
  2. That cannot undergo precise evaluation:
  3. That cannot be conclusively determined or explained
inappreciable
Too small to be noticed or make a significant difference; negligible:
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  1. Too small to be noticed or make a significant difference; negligible:
  2. Insignificant, undetectable, not able to be noticed
  3. Too small or insignificant to be observed or have any value; negligible
indiscernible
That cannot be discerned; imperceptible
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  1. That cannot be discerned; imperceptible
  2. Not capable of being discerned, of being perceived.
  3. Difficult or impossible to discern or perceive; imperceptible:
indistinguishable
Not distinguishable; not capable of being perceived, known, or discriminated as separate and distinct
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  1. Not distinguishable; not capable of being perceived, known, or discriminated as separate and distinct
  2. That cannot be discerned or recognized; imperceptible
  3. Impossible to discern; imperceptible:
insensible
Having lost sensation; unconscious
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  1. Having lost sensation; unconscious
  2. Not intelligible; without meaning
  3. Having lost consciousness, especially temporarily; unconscious:
intangible
Incapable of being realized or defined.
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  1. Incapable of being realized or defined.
  2. Designating or of any of certain business assets, esp. goodwill, that have no material being but have monetary value
  3. That cannot be easily defined, formulated, or grasped; vague
invisible
Not easily noticed or detected; inconspicuous:
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  1. Not easily noticed or detected; inconspicuous:
  2. Not visible; that cannot be seen
  3. Impossible to see; not visible:
unnoticeable
Not readily noticeable.
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  1. Not readily noticeable.
  2. Not noticeable
infinitesimal
Too small to be measured
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  1. Too small to be measured
  2. Capable of having values approaching zero as a limit.
  3. (Math.) Of or pertaining to an infinitesimal
microscopic
Of, relating to, or concerned with a microscope.
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  1. Of, relating to, or concerned with a microscope.
  2. So small as to be invisible or obscure except through a microscope; extremely small; minute
  3. Characterized by or done with extreme attention to detail:
Find another word for imperceptible. In this page you can discover 28 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for imperceptible, like: subtle, slight, gradual, faint, indistinct, indiscernible, undetectable, invisible, intangible, subliminal and faint.

Sentence Examples

  • He heard an almost imperceptible chuckle.

  • It is, however, probable that the one class runs into the other by imperceptible gradations.

  • He found that the electricity of the tourmaline decreased rapidly from the summits or poles towards the middle of the crystal, where it was imperceptible; and he discovered that if a tourmaline is broken into any number of fragments, each fragment, when excited, has two opposite poles.

  • The emotions were almost imperceptible, and it had taken her a long time of studying him to read him.

  • For example, from the evidence of molar changes due to the obvious parts of bodies, science first comes to believe in molecular changes due to imperceptible particles, and then tries to conceive the ideas of particles, molecules, atoms, electrons.

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