INAUDIBLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does inaudible mean? 

• INAUDIBLE (adjective)
  The adjective INAUDIBLE has 1 sense:

1. impossible to hear; imperceptible by the ear

  Familiarity information: INAUDIBLE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INAUDIBLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Impossible to hear; imperceptible by the ear

Synonyms:

inaudible; unhearable

Context example:

an inaudible conversation

Similar:

breathed; voiceless (uttered without voice)

infrasonic (having frequencies below those of audible sound)

silent (having a frequency below or above the range of human audibility)

silent; unsounded (not made to sound)

supersonic; ultrasonic (having frequencies above those of audible sound)

unheard (not necessarily inaudible but not heard)

Also:

imperceptible; unperceivable (impossible or difficult to perceive by the mind or senses)

quiet (free of noise or uproar; or making little if any sound)

Attribute:

audibility; audibleness (quality or fact or degree of being audible or perceptible by the ear)

Antonym:

audible (heard or perceptible by the ear)

Derivation:

inaudibility; inaudibleness (the quality of not being perceptible by the ear)

 Context examples 

Holmes’s voice had sunk to an almost inaudible whisper.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

An inaudible reply escaped Mason's white lips.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

"Professor Challenger—personal—views—later," were the solid peaks above his clouds of inaudible mutter.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The flute becomes inaudible, the wheels of the coach are heard instead, and I am on my journey.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

May's answer was inaudible, but another young lady, whose temper was evidently a little soured by making lemonade, added, with a disagreeable laugh, Very lovely, for she knew she wouldn't sell them at her own table.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Professor Murray will, I am sure, excuse me if I say that he has the common fault of most Englishmen of being inaudible.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Traddles was inaudible.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Just then she was both, for it was perfectly evident from the knowing glances exchanged among the gentlemen that her little fiction of 'my friend' was considered a good joke, and a laugh, produced by some inaudible remark of the editor, as he closed the door, completed her discomfiture.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)