different between visible vs starless

English

Etymology

From Middle English visible, from Old French visible, from Late Latin visibilis (“that may be seen”), from Latin videre (“to see”), past participle visus; see vision.

Pronunciation

• enPR: v?z'?-b?l, IPA^(key): /?v?z?b(?)l/
• Rhymes: -?b?l

Adjective

visible (comparative more visible, superlative most visible)

1. Able to be seen.

   Synonym: apparent

   Antonyms: hidden, invisible

Derived terms

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Further reading

• visible in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• visible in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Asturian

Adjective

visible (epicene, plural visibles)

1. visible (able to be seen)

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin v?sibilis.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /vi?zi.bl?/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /bi?zi.bl?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /vi?zi.ble/

Adjective

visible (masculine and feminine plural visibles)

1. visible

   Antonym: invisible

Derived terms

• visiblement

Related terms

• visibilitat

Further reading

• “visible” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Etymology

Latin visibilis

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vi.zibl/

Adjective

visible (plural visibles)

1. visible

Derived terms

• partie visible de l'iceberg
• visiblement

Further reading

• “visible” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Galician

Alternative forms

• visíbel

Adjective

visible m or f (plural visibles)

1. visible

Antonyms

• invisible

Derived terms

• visiblemente

Related terms

• visibilidade

Old French

Etymology

Late 12th century, borrowed from Latin visibilis.

Adjective

visible m (oblique and nominative feminine singular visible)

1. visible (able to be seen)

Spanish

Etymology

From Late Latin v?sibilis (“that may be seen”), from Latin v?sus, perfect passive participle of vide? (“to see”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bi?sible/, [bi?si.??le]

Adjective

visible (plural visibles)

1. visible

   Antonym: invisible

Related terms

English

Etymology

From Middle English sterreles, equivalent to star +? -less.

Adjective

starless (not comparable)

1. without visible stars.
   • 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 3, lines 422-6, [1]

     A globe far off / It seemed, now seems a boundless continent / Dark, waste, and wild, under the frown of Night / Starless exposed, and ever-threatening storms / Of Chaos blustering round, inclement sky;

   • 1895, H. G. Wells, The Time Machine, Chapter 11, [2]

     The sky was no longer blue. North-eastward it was inky black, and out of the blackness shone brightly and steadily the pale white stars. Overhead it was a deep Indian red and starless, and south-eastward it grew brighter to a glowing scarlet where, cut by the horizon, lay the huge hull of the sun, red and motionless.

   • 1931, Sinclair Lewis, "Ring Around a Rosy" in I'm a Stranger Here Myself and Other Stories, Dell, 1962, p. 160,

     A searchlight wounded the starless dark.

   • 1940, Robert Hayden, "Sonnet to E.," lines 1-2, in Heart-Shape in the Dust, cited in "Robert Hayden: The Apprenticeship: Heart-Shape in the Dust (1940)", African-American Poets, Volume 1: 1700s—1940s, edited by Harold Bloom, Infobase, 2009, p. 15,

     Beloved, there have been starless times when I / Have longed to join the alien hosts of death,

   • 1962, James Baldwin, Another Country, Dell, 1985, Book One, Chapter 1, p. 10,

     A hotel's enormous neon name challenged the starless sky.

   • 1992, Toni Morrison, Jazz, New York: Vintage, 2004, p. 35,

     […] there is nothing to beat what the City can make of a nightsky. It can empty itself of surface, and more like the ocean than the ocean itself, go deep, starless.

   The starless night was very dark.

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