[
US
/ˌɪmpɝˈsɛptɪbɫi/
]
[ UK /ɪmpəsˈɛptəbli/ ]
[ UK /ɪmpəsˈɛptəbli/ ]
ADVERB
-
in an imperceptible manner or to an imperceptible degree
the power of the Secretary of State in London increased gradually but imperceptibly
How To Use imperceptibly In A Sentence
- The Queen heard it as well, for Margaret saw her shoulders stiffen almost imperceptibly.
- With nothing but the gentle slap of one piece of pasteboard against another to distract him, Sam slipped imperceptibly from daydreaming into sleep.
- This starts out as sensible cost-saving and value.engineering but imperceptibly the boundary is crossed arid we enter the realm of skimping.
- Free labour merges imperceptibly with slavery; work becomes servitude; livelihood is transformed into strange new forms of bondage.
- Close to the beginners meadow are gentle slopes, which become imperceptibly steeper, enabling you to improve without fear.
- A man who is taken into servitude to wind the kingdom's clocks, concocts a scheme in which the clocks slowly but imperceptibly run down.
- Gradually, almost imperceptibly, her condition had worsened.
- She twittered and tweeted and seemed to move imperceptibly whilst standing completely still.
- Imperceptibly the yellow balloon and the yellow copepod mingle with the music in my mind, the balloon representing the globe on which copepods play such a prominent ecological role.
- I nodded imperceptibly, anxious not to inflame him further.