Synonyms for unseeable
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : see |
| Phonetic Transcription : si |
Top 10 synonyms for unseeable
- gaseous
- ghostly
- ideal
- impalpable
- imponderable
- inappreciable
- indiscernible
- infinitesimal
- insensible
- intangible
- masked
- not in sight
- obliterated
- obscured
- occult
- out of sight
- perdu
- screened
- supernatural
- ulterior
- unapparent
- undisclosed
- ungraspable
- unnoticeable
- unobservable
- unperceivable
- unreal
- unviewable
- vaporous
- veiled
- wraithlike
Définition of unseeable
Origin :- Old English seon "to see, look, behold; observe, perceive, understand; experience, visit, inspect" (contracted class V strong verb; past tense seah, past participle sewen), from Proto-Germanic *sekhwanan (cf. Old Saxon, Old High German sehan, Middle High German, German sehen, Old Frisian sia, Middle Dutch sien, Old Norse sja, Gothic saihwan), from PIE root *sekw- (2) "to see," which is probably identical with *sekw- (1) "to follow" (see sequel), a root which produced words for "say" in Greek and Latin, and also words for "follow" (cf. Latin sequor), but "opinions differ in regard to the semantic starting-point and sequences" [Buck]. Thus see might originally mean "follow with the eyes."
- Used in Middle English to mean "behold in the imagination or in a dream" (c.1200), "to recognize the force of (a demonstration)," also c.1200. Sense of "escort" (e.g. to see someone home) first recorded 1607 in Shakespeare. Meaning "to receive as a visitor" is attested from c.1500. Gambling sense of "equal a bet" is from 1590s. See you as a casual farewell first attested 1891. Let me see as a pausing statement is recorded from 1510s. To have seen everything as a hyperbolic expression of astonishment is from 1957.
- When you have seen one of their Pictures, you have seen all. [Blake, c.1811]
- As in invisible : adj unable to be seen; hidden
- We cannot be exposed to the looks of others, for our very being is night-lustrous and unseeable.
- Extract from : « Aaron's Rod » by D. H. Lawrence
- Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.
- Extract from : « Christmas » by Various
- One by one he snatched them up, one by one absorbed them into the great, unseeable horror of his being.
- Extract from : « The Tree of Life » by Catherine Lucille Moore
- We quit staring at a closed brick outbuilding with unseeable things down under it, and went on our way.
- Extract from : « Virginia: The Old Dominion » by Frank W. Hutchins and Cortelle Hutchins
- Palisaded, cliff on radiant cliff, the spires of the Unseeable lay bare.
- Extract from : « Shandygaff » by Christopher Morley
Antonyms for unseeable
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