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Definition: Undistinguishable |
UndistinguishableAdjective1. Not capable of being distinguished or differentiated; "the two specimens are actually different from each other but the differences are almost indistinguishable"; "the twins were indistinguishable"; "a colorless person quite indistinguishable from the colorless mass of humanity". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "undistinguishable" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
Synonym: UndistinguishableSynonym: indistinguishable (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: distinguishable (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Indiscrimination | Adjective: indiscriminate; undistinguished, indistinguishable, undistinguishable; unmeasured; promiscuous, undiscriminating. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Undistinguishable |
| Etymologies containing "undistinguishable": Acritochromacy. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | The thrills of joy and thrills of pain are undistinguishable. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Undistinguishable" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Undistinguishable" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "undistinguishable"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i paqartë (abstract, dark, dim, doubtful, dubious, dusky, evasive, inarticulate, indefinite, indeterminate, indistinct, muddy, nebulous, obscure, out of focus, recondite, shadowy, uncertain, unclear, undistinguished, unknowable, unreadable, vague), i padallueshëm (indiscernible, indistinct, indistinctive, indistinguishable, insensible, invisible, undistinguished). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | който не може да се различи, незабележим (inappreciable, inconspicuous, indetectable, indiscernible, indistinguishable, invisible, unseen). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | undeutlich (blurred, dimly, hazy, illegible, inarticulate, inarticulately, indefinite, indefinitely, indistinct, indistinctly, indistinguishable, muddled, mumblingly, obscure, obscurely, slurred, unarticulate, uncertain, unclear, undistinguished, unemphatic, unexplicit, vague). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | megkülönböztethetetlen (indiscernible, indistinguishable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | indistinto (dim, fuzzy, hazy, inarticulate, indistinct, nebulous, shadowy, unemphatic, unexplicit, vague). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | istinguishableunday indistinguível (indistinguishable, undiscriminated). (various references) неразличимый (indiscernible, indistinguishable, undiscriminated, undistinguished). (various references) nepodeljiv, koji se ne može razaznati, koji se ne može klasifikovati. (various references) indistinto (dim, faint, indiscriminate, indistinct, unemphatic, unexplicit, vague). (various references) seçilemeyen, fark edilemez (indiscernible, unnoticable). (various references) không thể phân biệt được; không rõ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-g-h-i-i-i-l-n-n-s-s-t-u-u" | |
-2 letters: distinguishable. | |
-5 letters: disentailing, establishing, sanguinities. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 6E 64 69 73 74 69 6E 67 75 69 73 68 61 62 6C 65 |
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. -.. .. ... - .. -. --. ..- .. ... .... .- -... .-.. . |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01100100 01101001 01110011 01110100 01101001 01101110 01100111 01110101 01101001 01110011 01101000 01100001 01100010 01101100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n d i s t i n g u i s h a b l e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 0064 0069 0073 0074 0069 006E 0067 0075 0069 0073 0068 0061 0062 006C 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5580707585867580738775857467687871 |
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