Both Uses of
audible
in
The Glass Menagerie
- … [Amanda's voice becomes audible through the portieres,,] [Legend on screen: "Ou sont les neiges.†
Scene 1
- AMANDA [faintly, almost inaudibly]: —No.
Scene 2 *inaudibly = unhearable (because she speaks so softly)standard 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.
Definition:
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(audible as in: barely audible) capable of being heard