indistinguishable
[ˌɪn.dɪˈstɪŋ.ɡwɪ.ʃə.bl̩]
indistinguishable adjective: not distinguishable; not capable of being perceived, known, or discriminated as separate and distinct.
Adjective
indistinguishable (comparative more indistinguishable, superlative most indistinguishable)
- Not distinguishable; not capable of being perceived, known, or discriminated as separate and distinct
- The banks of the old railway are now so thickly overgrown with trees as to be almost indistinguishable from the surrounding countryside, and the most obvious landmarks are the walls of a bridge over a lane, and stone bridge, still intact, where a cart road crosses the cutting, close to the site of...1950 May, M. D. Greville and G. O. Holt, “A Forgotten Junction in Westmorland”, in Railway Magazine, page 330
- Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic1973, Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future (revised)
- Not capable of being perceived or known.
Noun
indistinguishable (plural indistinguishables)
- Any of a set of things that cannot be distinguished.
indistinguishable meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Telugu
indistinguishable in Hindi
- अप्रभेद्य
indistinguishable in Tamil
- பிரித்தறிய முடியாத
indistinguishable in Urdu
- بےشناخت, ناقابل امتیاز, ناقابل تفریق
indistinguishable in Telugu
- వేరు చేయలేనిది
More languagesFewer languages
- indistinguishable in Malayalam
- വേർതിരിച്ചറിയാൻ കഴിയാത്ത, തിരിച്ചറിയാനാവാത്ത, അപരിച്ഛേദ്യ, വ്യവഛേദിക്കാനാവാത്ത
- indistinguishable in Kannada
- ವ್ಯತ್ಯಾಸ ಕಾಣಿಸದ, ಅಸ್ಪಷ್ಟವಾದ
- indistinguishable in Nepali
- अप्रभेद्य, अविभेद्य
Examples of indistinguishable in a sentence
- Whereas in classical physics mass and energy are distinct concepts, on relativistic scales, they become indistinguishable and are replaced by mass-energy.
- The regular infinigon is indistinguishable from a circle.
- The demo wowed its audience with its technomagic, leading some audience members to quote Clarke's third law: "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
Antonyms of indistinguishable
Forms of indistinguishable
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more indistinguishable |
| superlative | most indistinguishable |
| Noun | |
| plural | indistinguishables |
Origin of indistinguishable
From in- + distinguishable.
Words formed from indistinguishable
Questions about indistinguishable
- What does indistinguishable mean?
- Indistinguishable means not distinguishable; not capable of being perceived, known, or discriminated as separate and distinct.
- What is indistinguishable in Hindi?
- Indistinguishable in Hindi is अप्रभेद्य. See Indistinguishable meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is indistinguishable?
- Indistinguishable can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce indistinguishable?
- Indistinguishable is pronounced [ˌɪn.dɪˈstɪŋ.ɡwɪ.ʃə.bl̩].
Words near indistinguishable in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: indistinguishable (page history and authors); indistinguishable (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); indistinguishable (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); indistinguishable (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); indistinguishable (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); indistinguishable (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); indistinguishable (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); indistinguishable (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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