4 definitions found
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Invisible \In*vis"i*ble\, noun
1. An invisible person or thing; specifically, God, the Supreme Being.
2. A Rosicrucian; -- so called because avoiding declaration of his craft. [Obs.]
3. (Eccl. Hist.) One of those (as in the 16th century) who denied the visibility of the church. --Shipley.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Invisible \In*vis"i*ble\, adjective [F. invisible, L. invisibilis. See {In-} not, and {Visible}.]
1. Incapable of being seen; not perceptible by vision; not visible. Specifically: (a) Not visible due to an inherent property, such as lack of color; as, the invisible air; invisible ink; (b) hidden from view; out of sight; (c) Not perceptible due to lack of light; (d) Too small or too distant to be perceived; as, people on the ground invisible at cruising altitude. [1913 Webster +PJC]
To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works. --Milton.
2. Hidden from the public; as, invisible transactions. [PJC]
3. imperceptible to the mind; as, differences invisible to most observers. [PJC]
{Invisible bird} (Zo["o]l.), a small, shy singing bird ({Myadestes sibilons}), of St. Vincent Islands.
{Invisible green}, a very dark shade of green, approaching to black, and liable to be mistaken for it.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
invisible
adjective
1: impossible or nearly impossible to see; imperceptible by the eye; "the invisible man"; "invisible rays"; "an invisible hinge"; "invisible mending" [syn: {unseeable}] [ant: {visible}] 2: not prominent or readily noticeable; "he pushed the string through an inconspicuous hole"; "the invisible man" [syn: {inconspicuous}] [ant: {conspicuous}]From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
63 Moby Thesaurus words for "invisible": atomic, behind the curtain, behind the scenes, camouflaged, concealed, corpuscular, covered, disguised, embryonic, evanescent, germinal, granular, hidden, impalpable, imperceptible, imponderable, inappreciable, indiscernible, infinitesimal, insensible, intangible, latent, masked, microcosmic, microscopic, molecular, out of sight, secret, sightless, subatomic, submerged, tenuous, thin, ultramicroscopic, unapparent, unappreciable, unbeheld, unbeholdable, undetected, undiscernible, undisclosed, undiscovered, undivulged, unexplained, unexplored, unexposed, unnoticed, unobservable, unobserved, unperceivable, unperceived, unrealized, unrevealed, unseeable, unseen, unsolved, unspied, untraced, untracked, unviewed, unwitnessed, veiled, viewless