Standard Lemma guide

audibly

adv · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

  • CMU ARPABET: AA1 D AH0 B L IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

adv

Meaning 1

In context of possibility of being heard; in an audible manner.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

adverb

Meaning 2

in an audible manner

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • he spoke audibly

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: inaudibly

History

Etymology

Etymology tree English audible Middle English -ly English -ly English audibly From audible + -ly.

Across languages

Translations

8 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Esperanto: aŭdeble — in context of being heard
  • Finnish: kuuluvasti — in context of being heard
  • Irish: os ard — in context of being heard
  • Polish: słyszalnie — in context of being heard
  • Portuguese: audivelmente — in context of being heard
  • Russian: гро́мко (grómko) — in context of being heard
  • Russian: вня́тно (vnjátno) — in context of being heard
  • Russian: вслух (vslux) — in context of being heard