indistinguishable
[ˌɪn.dɪˈstɪŋ.ɡwɪ.ʃə.bl̩]
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.16 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
6
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not distinguishable; not capable of being perceived, known, or discriminated as separate and distinct
noun
Any of a set of things that cannot be distinguished.
Example Sentences
- "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 the former Clifton South Junction."
- "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in-bor. Middle English in- English in- English distinguish Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English distinguishable English indistinguishable From in- + distinguishable.
Inflected Forms
more indistinguishable (comparative)
most indistinguishable (superlative)
indistinguishables (plural)