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seeable

seeable

1 3.7
Something you can notice with your eyes
  • adjective
  • /ˈsiːəbl/
translation icon : visible
  • In a twisted way, it is soothing to have your mind focus on the external, "seeable" hurt.

For him, it was all about how do we make physics, the natural world, seeable to everyone.

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Examples

  • For him, it was all about how do we make physics, the natural world, seeable to everyone.

  • The stars were clearly seeable on the dark night without any city lights.

  • But that if there is a way for you to, like, make that seeable to America, I think it's very powerful.

  • It lets us see things that are not seeable otherwise.

  • While imagination and craft certainly go into the creation of the score, it takes imagination and craft to bring the score into hearable and seeable being.

    Academic text (2000)
  • "This St-Eustache whose "principle" is perverted and masked by a strange "envelope" is extremely evocative yet is the least seeable of the modern St-Eustaches so far considered.

    Academic text (1998)
  • Structure becomes knowable not as an immediately apprehensible self-present presence, but as the residue of ornament, as the absence of ornament, as that part of the building that cannot make itself seeable to the viewer in the first place.

    Academic text (1998)
  • However, it is clear that many African artists, working across diverse social and market frameworks, are creating potent images that are a "complex intersection of the seeable, the sayable, and the palpable" (Mitchell 1994:224).

    Academic text (2007)
  • And they see that unity in terms of concrete images from the world around them—the only things that are 'seeable'—but they see these concrete images in a novel, nonordinary light (82).

    Academic text (1994)
  • The signs were strategically placed to make the directions seeable from a distance.

Synonyms

visible
vsseeable
398 1.0

Easy to see or notice

is the neutral capacity to be perceived by sight
in sight
vsseeable
159 1.0

Able to be seen now or close by

is about general ability to be perceived by sight
discernible
vsseeable
29 5.5

Something that is easy to see or notice

is simply capable of being perceived by sight without close recognition
observable
vsseeable
20 4.3

Able to be seen or noticed

is focused on visual ability to be perceived by sight
perceptible
vsseeable
8 5.4

Able to be seen, heard, or noticed

is restricted to being perceived by sight rather than other senses
barely visible
vsseeable
7 4.2

Hard to see because it is very faint

is about being clearly perceptible by sight rather than barely detectable
viewable
vsseeable
2 3.4

Able to be seen on a screen or in a place

is about passive ability to be noticed by sight
perceivable
vsseeable
1 4.9

Noticeable to a person, like a change or a sound

is limited to perception by sight only rather than multiple senses
discernable
vsseeable
1 5.1

Easy to notice or understand

is mainly about visual perception by the eye not wider senses

Antonyms

218 3.7

Not able to be seen with the naked eye

125 1.1

A thing that is not easily seen or found

How Visible

conspicuous
55 5.1
seeable
1 3.7
faint
148 2.7
invisible
218 3.7

Surface Forms

seeable positive
seeabler comparative
seeablest superlative

Morphology

seeable = see (transparent) = see + able

A straightforward adjective formed from the verb 'see' with the productive suffix '-able' meaning 'capable of being seen'.

Etymology

Seeable comes from the simple verb see ('to use your eyes') plus the ending -able ('able to' or 'can be'), so it literally means 'able to be seen', like readable means 'able to be read'.