perceivable C2+ Topic:Describing People US /pərˈsivəbəl/ UK /pəˈsiːvəbəl/ See IPA manual Meanings 1 adj capable of being perceived or noticed There was a perceivable chill in the air by late afternoon. Thesaurus Synonyms 1 adj · capable of being perceived... perceptiblediscerniblenoticeabledetectableobservableappreciable ↔ Opposites imperceptibleundetectableinvisibleindiscernible Word family Forms unperceivable Derived forms perceivably Related forms perceiveperceptionperceptiblepercept Etymology AI details From perceive + -able. Perceive derives from Old French perçoivre, from Latin percipere ('to seize, take in'), from per- ('thoroughly') + capere ('to take'). percipere Latin capere Latin View etymology graph -> Topics Describing People Word Formation & Derivatives External links Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary Google Images # perceivable **Type:** Word **Level:** C2+ **Part of speech:** adj **IPA (US):** /pərˈsivəbəl/ **IPA (UK):** /pəˈsiːvəbəl/ ## Meanings 1. capable of being perceived or noticed ## Examples - There was a perceivable chill in the air by late afternoon. ## Synonyms - perceptible - discernible - noticeable - detectable - observable - appreciable ## Antonyms - imperceptible - undetectable - invisible - indiscernible ## Derived Forms - perceivably ## Related Forms - perceive - perception - perceptible - percept ## Roots and Affixes - Root: percipere - Root: capere ## Etymology From perceive + -able. Perceive derives from Old French perçoivre, from Latin percipere ('to seize, take in'), from per- ('thoroughly') + capere ('to take'). ## AI Etymology Perceivable is from perceive + -able. Perceive derives from Old French perçoivre, from Latin percipere ('to seize, take in'), from per- ('thoroughly') + capere ('to take'). Important recorded forms include percipere (Latin) and capere (Latin). Morphologically, the word preserves a built structure whose named elements carry the historical sense into English. The modern sense remains close to that composition, with the parts narrowing into a single lexical item. In current use it covers capable of being perceived or noticed. The wider family includes derived forms such as perceivably and related words such as perceive, perception, perceptible, and percept. ## Topics - Describing People - Word Formation & Derivatives markdown