All 7 Uses of
audible
in
Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky
- She was given to laughter and when anything amused her, she laughed inaudibly, quivering and shaking all over till she felt ill.†
Chpt 1.3 *inaudibly = so quietly it almost couldn't be heardstandard prefix: The prefix "in-" in inaudibly means not and reverses the meaning of audibly. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
- "Lizaveta," murmured Raskolnikov hardly audibly.†
Chpt 2.4audibly = in a manner that can be heard
- You are not Amalia Ivanovna, but Amalia Ludwigovna, and as I am not one of your despicable flatterers like Mr. Lebeziatnikov, who's laughing behind the door at this moment (a laugh and a cry of 'they are at it again' was in fact audible at the door) so I shall always call you Amalia Ludwigovna, though I fail to understand why you dislike that name.†
Chpt 2.7audible = capable of being heard
- "What do you mean...what is....Who is a murderer?" muttered Raskolnikov hardly audibly.†
Chpt 3.6audibly = in a manner that can be heard
- "Then how do you know about it?" she asked again, hardly audibly and again after a minute's pause.†
Chpt 5.4
- "You had better tell me straight out...without examples," she begged, still more timidly and scarcely audibly.†
Chpt 5.4
- He walked right to the table, leaned his hand on it, tried to say something, but could not; only incoherent sounds were audible.†
Chpt 6.8audible = capable of being heard