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Unseeable

Definition: Unseeable

Unseeable

Adjective

1. Impossible or nearly impossible to see; imperceptible by the eye; "the invisible man"; "invisible rays"; "an invisible hinge"; "invisible mending".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "unseeable" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1913. (references)


Synonym: Unseeable

Synonym: invisible (adj). (additional references)
Antonym: visible (adj). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Unseeable

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

100 Years of Horror: The Evil Unseeable (1996)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Unseeable

"Unseeable" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unseeable" is used about 6 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%6143,867

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Unseeable

Language Translations for "unseeable"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

unsichtbar (indiscernible, invisible, invisibly, unseen, unseenly). (various references)

   

Italian

  

invisibile (invisible, viewless). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eeableunsay

   

Spanish

  

invisible (indiscernible, invisible, sightless, unseen, unsighted). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Unseeable

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-e-e-e-l-n-s-u"

-2 letters: baleens, enables, nebulae, nebulas, seeable, useable.

-3 letters: abeles, aeneus, aneles, baleen, enable, lebens, nebula, nebule, suable, unable, unease, unseal, usable, usneae.

-4 letters: abele, ables, abuse, anele, bales, banes, beans, beaus, benes, blase, blues, easel, elans, ensue, lanes, leans, lease, leben, lenes, lense, lubes, lunas, lunes, nabes, sable, ulans, ulnae, ulnas, usnea.

-5 letters: able, albs.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-e-e-e-l-n-s-u"
 

+2 letters: equableness.

 

+3 letters: usablenesses.

 

+4 letters: balefulnesses, curablenesses, durablenesses, equablenesses, equitableness, excusableness, superableness, tunablenesses, unforeseeable, unrespectable, unserviceable.

 

+5 letters: absolutenesses, beleaguerments, bullheadedness, culpablenesses, laudablenesses, sufferableness, suitablenesses, undeniableness, unstablenesses, valuablenesses, vulnerableness.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Unseeable


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

55 6E 73 65 65 61 62 6C 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..-    -.    ...    .    .    .-    -...    .-..    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010101 01101110 01110011 01100101 01100101 01100001 01100010 01101100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#110 &#115 &#101 &#101 &#97 &#98 &#108 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 006E 0073 0065 0065 0061 0062 006C 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

558085717167687871

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage Frequency
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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