INDISTINGUISHABLE Synonyms: 133 Similar and Opposite Words

indistinguishable

adjective

ˌin-di-ˈstiŋ-gwi-shə-bəl

Definition of indistinguishable

as in invisible

not perceptible by a sense or by the mind indistinguishable differences that can be measured only electronically

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as in vague

not seen or understood clearly indistinguishable shapes in the fog

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as in identical

resembling another in every respect a synthetic fabric that supposedly is indistinguishable from real silk

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Recent Examples of indistinguishable Had Thursday gone differently, the present and future may have been indistinguishable. — Brian Hamilton, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2026 Thus the Marlowe played by Mitchum in the 1978 remake of The Big Sleep seems like an entirely different person from the original played by Bogart in 1946, despite their almost indistinguishable stories. — Harmon Siegel, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026 Inside the brain, physical and social pain are nearly indistinguishable. — George Loewenstein, Vogue, 28 Sep. 2026 Efficient, functional and increasingly indistinguishable from everything else. — Jennifer Jones, Forbes.com, 28 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for indistinguishable

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Adjective

The mostly invisible bits course through blood and pass from mother to child through the placenta and breast milk.

— Michael Hawthorne, Chicago Tribune, 22 Oct. 2026
Why invisible warmth is catching on The cultural setup for this trend was already in place.

— Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of invisible

Adjective

Recent criticism The century-old restaurant guide is famous for its secrecy; its inspectors are anonymous and the company releases only vague information about their evaluation process.

— Henri Hollis, AJC.com, 20 Oct. 2026
The plaintiffs had argued those terms were vague, and that the council selectively used them to silence prominent critics, violating their First Amendment rights.

— Danya Gainor, CNN Money, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of vague

Adjective

Currently the Swingers menus are more or less identical across both locations, though Wilson expects to introduce unique daily specials at each.

— Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026
During the 1998 Massachusetts governor’s race, political scientist Ted Brader ran a study that embedded campaign ads in a news broadcast and changed only the music and images, keeping the words identical.

— Monique Mitchell Turner, The Conversation, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of identical

Adjective

Instead, his team developed SynthID, an imperceptible, incorruptible digital watermark now stamped to anything generated by Google AI, but also OpenAI, Nvidia, Kakao, and, soon, Apple.

— Daniel Varghese, Time, 15 Oct. 2026
Through a meditative duet between the performer’s cognition and their autonomic nervous system, activities that were largely imperceptible to an outside observer became known to the performer.

— Sophie Landres, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of imperceptible

Adjective

But take a walk inside and the ground is laden with faint slabs of rock, gravestones from a centuries-old Indigenous family cemetery that had been obscured by the passage of time and neglect.

— Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 22 Oct. 2026
However, the light cast by the waxing moon — just four days from being full — will likely reduce the number of visible meteors by hiding fainter Orionids from sight.

— Anthony Wood, Space.com, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of faint

Adjective

The physiological case for a brief dunk is, by her own account, comparable.

— Samantha Agate, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 Oct. 2026
According to Inception, Mercury 3 is more than 40 times larger than its first-generation model, Mercury 1, while maintaining comparable processing speeds.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of comparable

Adjective

The rash can be more subtle on darker skin tones, but a bumpy or textured feel is often present.

— Sara Tenenbaum, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026
The last major change was the iPhone X, which dropped the home button almost a decade ago, and even that was a fairly subtle improvement.

— Nilay Patel, The Verge, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of subtle

Adjective

Even as the sense of a hazy disturbance in the force lingers, Burkholder’s approximately three-minute statement at least demystified some of the curious situation.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 23 Oct. 2026
The band frequently steers the poppy songwriting offroad by leaning into distortion and ambience, creating moments of both near-mania and hazy unease.

— Sue Park, Pitchfork, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of hazy

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