Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a perceptible manner; in a degree or to an amount that may be perceived or noticed.

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  • adverb In a perceptible manner.

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  • adverb in a noticeable manner

Etymologies

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perceptible +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • To the extent that our lives do not differ perceptibly from the lives of convinced advocates of U.S. exceptionalism, the rest of the world will justifiably number us among those advocates.

    AKMA’s Random Thoughts 2005

  • With the passing minutes the lines deepened on his haggard countenance, his expression perceptibly aged.

    Mountain Blood A Novel Joseph Hergesheimer 1917

  • He had seen twenty years of service in the colonies, from Nigeria and Senegal to the South Seas, and those twenty years had not perceptibly brightened his dull mind.

    THE CHINAGO 2010

  • The Sun is creeping southwards again, but it may be late July before we notice that our nights are perceptibly longer and darker.

    Starwatch: The July night sky 2011

  • And if it had not, a glance at her gray eyes, just perceptibly angry with herself, and at her firm-set mouth, would have told him the same thing.

    Chapter XIII 2010

  • And as he ascended the hillside the lines grew perceptibly shorter.

    All Gold Canon 2010

  • On the face of it a quarter-final line-up of four French clubs, two Irish provinces and two representatives from England is hardly proof of the Gallic stranglehold loosening but the odds have now shifted perceptibly.

    Home advantage gives Northampton and Leinster hope for Heineken Cup 2011

  • The Sun is creeping southwards again, but it may be late July before we notice that our nights are perceptibly longer and darker.

    Starwatch: The July night sky 2011

  • I indeed perceptibly gained on it; and when, after nearly two days 'journey, I beheld my enemy at no more than a mile distant, my heart bounded within me.

    Chapter 7 2010

  • I indeed perceptibly gained on it; and when, after nearly two days 'journey, I beheld my enemy at no more than a mile distant, my heart bounded within me.

    Chapter 24 2010

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