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Definition of invisible adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

invisible

adjective
 
/ɪnˈvɪzəbl/
 
/ɪnˈvɪzəbl/
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  1. that cannot be seen
    • a wizard who could make himself invisible
    • She felt invisible in the crowd.
    • invisible to somebody/something stars invisible to the naked eye
    opposite visible
    Extra Examples
    • Infrared light is invisible to the human eye.
    • The tanks were camouflaged so that they were invisible from the air.
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs
    • be
    • become
    • remain
    adverb
    • completely
    • totally
    • almost
    preposition
    • to
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  2. ignored or treated as if they/it cannot be seen
    • Homeless people feel that they are invisible.
    • It's interesting how women are rendered invisible in these statistics.
  3. (economics) connected with a service that a country provides, such as banks or tourism, rather than goods
    • invisible earnings
  4. Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French, or from Latin invisibilis, from in- ‘not’ + visibilis (from videre ‘to see’).
See invisible in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee invisible in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic English

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