Meanings
comparative more undistinguishable · superlative most undistinguishable
- Indistinguishable.
1 more example
Here I obtained the rare and beautiful swallow-tail butterflies, Papilio aenomaus and P. liris; the males of which are quite unlike each other, and belong in fact to distinct sections of the genus, while the females are so much alike that they are undistinguishable on the wing, and to an uneducated eye equally so in the cabinet.
1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 297
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivenot capable of being distinguished or differentiated
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Germanic*un-
- Proto-West Germanic*un-
- Old Englishun-
- Middle Englishun-
- Englishun-
- Englishdistinguish
- Englishdistinguishable
- Englishundistinguishable
From un- + distinguishable.
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