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- He had got his teeth in the pillow so that his sobbing should be inaudible.†
Chpt 11-12 *inaudible = not capable of being heardstandard prefix: The prefix "in-" in inaudible means not and reverses the meaning of audible. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
- He spoke slowly, in a curious manner, as though he were straining to hear something which was only just audible.†
Chpt 47-48audible = capable of being heard
Definitions:
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(audible as in: barely audible) capable of being heard
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) In football, the term has come to include an instruction shouted from the line of scrimmage.
Recently, the word is also being used to indicate sounds that could be played on a phone or computer; for example "audibles include creative hellos that can be downloaded."