Meanings
comparative more perceptible · superlative most perceptible
- Able to be perceived, sensed, or discerned.
Her voice was barely perceptible over the noise, but her gestures made her meaning clear.
1 more example
Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke.[…]A silver snaffle on a heavy leather watch guard which connected the pockets of his corduroy waistcoat, together with a huge gold stirrup in his Ascot tie, sufficiently proclaimed his tastes.[…]But withal there was a perceptible acumen about the man which was puzzling in the extreme.
1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLCSynonyms: conspicuous, detectable, discernable, noticeable, observable, perceivable, sensable, sensible
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveAble to be perceived, sensed, or discerned.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivecapable of being perceived by the mind or senses
adjectiveeasily seen or detected
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Latinpercipio
- Late Latinperceptibilis
- Englishperceptible
Borrowed from Late Latin perceptibilis, from Latin percipio.
More words from Late Latin, Latin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian осеза́ем
- осеза́ем (osezáem)able to be perceived
Catalan perceptible, apercebible
- perceptibleable to be perceived
- apercebibleable to be perceived
Chinese Mandarin 感覺得到的 /感觉得到的
- 感覺得到的 /感觉得到的 (gǎnjué dédào de)able to be perceived
Finnish aistittava, havaittava
- aistittavaable to be perceived
- havaittavaable to be perceived
French perceptible
- perceptibleable to be perceived
German wahrnehmbar, spürbar
- wahrnehmbarable to be perceived
- spürbarable to be perceived
- fühlbarable to be perceived
Hindi विचक्षण
- विचक्षण (vicakṣaṇ)able to be perceived
Hungarian megfogható, felfogható
- megfoghatóable to be perceived
- felfoghatóable to be perceived
- érezhetőable to be perceived
Italian percepibile
- percepibileable to be perceived
Japanese 知覚できる
- 知覚できる (chikaku dekiru)able to be perceived
Latin sēnsibilis
- sēnsibilisable to be perceived
Māori māheahea
- māheaheaable to be perceived
Portuguese percetível, perceptível
- percetívelable to be perceived
- perceptívelable to be perceived
Russian ощути́мый, осяза́емый
- ощути́мый (oščutímyj)able to be perceived
- осяза́емый (osjazájemyj)able to be perceived
- заме́тный (zamétnyj)able to be perceived
Spanish perceptible
- perceptibleable to be perceived
Swedish märkbar, förnimbar
- märkbarable to be perceived
- förnimbarable to be perceived
- möjlig att uppfattaable to be perceived
Thai รับรู้ได้
- รับรู้ได้able to be perceived
Turkish algılanabilir
- algılanabilirable to be perceived
Ukrainian відчу́тний, примі́тний
- відчу́тний (vidčútnyj)able to be perceived
- примі́тний (prymítnyj)able to be perceived
Cite this entry
perceptible. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/perceptible
“perceptible.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/perceptible. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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