undetectably
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7.4
- adverb
- /ˌʌndɪˈtɛktəbli/
:
indetectablemente
- Some allergic reactions can occur undetectably, making it hard for the individual to identify the cause.
Examples
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The changes to the document were made undetectably, ensuring that no one could trace the alterations.
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He would have grown the government more slowly and probably more undetectably.
Blog text (30) -
Without showing ID, it takes only the thinnest grasp of the process to undetectably scam the whole system.
Blog text (20) -
Because the backdoor password was embedded in the program code itself, anyone with access to the software could exploit it undetectably.
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Sharon asked for permission to kill Arafat, and Bush gave it to him, with the proviso that it must be done undetectably.
Blog text (21) -
Sharon asked for permission to kill Arafat, and Bush gave it to him, with the proviso that it must be done undetectably.
Blog text (21) -
It undetectably starts the recorder when the phone is lifted and shuts it off when the receiver is put back.
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Leading only to ultimate obscurity, his words' venom is, nonetheless, undetectably rimmed with golden honey—the promise of an epistemological path to godlike powers.
Academic text (1991) -
The Princeton Diebold Virus Hack, if you've been living in a cave, found that a single person with 60 seconds of unsupervised access to the system, who either picked the lock (easy in 10 seconds) or had a key, could slip a vote-swapping virus onto a single machine, which could then undetectably affect every other machine in the county to steal an entire election.
Blog text (32) -
The thief managed to leave the scene undetectably, blending in with the crowd as if he had never been there.
Synonyms
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4.7
Without being seen by other people
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6.5
Without being easily seen or noticed by other people
In a way people do not notice
In a way you cannot see or notice
Antonyms
How Detectable
∞
1.0
1
4.4
30
2.8
47
2.7
1
7.4
7
7.5
Surface Forms
Morphology
undetectably = undetectable (transparent) = un + detect + able + ly
The adverb is a straightforward -ly derivative of 'undetectable', whose meaning ('not able to be detected') is directly built from 'detect' + '-able' with negation 'un-'.
Etymology
Undetectably breaks into parts: un- 'not', detect, the same root as in detective, meaning 'to uncover or find', plus -able 'can be' and -ly 'in a way'. So undetectably means 'in a way that cannot be uncovered or noticed'.