What does noticeable mean?
Word: Noticeable
Part of Speech: Adjective
Meaning: Noticeable means easy to see or notice; clear enough that people spot it without trying.
Synonyms: obvious, clear, visible, marked
Antonyms: hidden, faint
How do you spell noticeable?
Syllables: no - tice - a - ble
Tricky part: The e at the end of notice stays when the ending is added. Without it, the c would have to take a hard k sound.
Watch out for: noticable, noticeabel
Memory tip: Keep notice whole, e and all, before the ending: that e is what keeps the c sounding like s, just as it does in notice itself.
Noticeable in a sentence
Example 1: There was a noticeable drop in traffic on Sunday morning.
Example 2: After a month of practice, her handwriting showed a noticeable improvement.
Example 3: The scratch on the new bicycle was small but noticeable.
Fun Fact
Noticeable is built on notice, which goes back to the Latin notitia, meaning knowledge or the state of being known.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Makeup
Choose the suffix that completes the word:
notice
a) ible
b) eble
c) uble
d) able
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d) able. Notice joins with able, and the e of notice stays in front of it.
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the correctly spelt word:
a) seperate
b) occurence
c) harrass
d) noticeable
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d) noticeable. Harass has one r, separate has an a after the p, and occurrence needs a double r.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
ebcatonlie
a) negotiable
b) noticeable
c) inevitable
d) notifiable
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b) noticeable. Notifiable needs an f, negotiable a g and inevitable a v; only noticeable fits these ten letters.
Word Cookie
Find the misspelt word in the sentence:
After a week of rain, there was a noticeable rise in the level of the resevoir.
a) noticeable
b) rise
c) resevoir
d) level
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c) resevoir. Reservoir has an r before the v: res-er-voir.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which of these changes would almost everyone in a classroom find noticeable?
a) the ceiling fan stopping on a hot afternoon
b) a single word changed on a long notice
c) one pencil going missing from a full box
d) a tiny scratch on the back of a chair
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a) the ceiling fan stopping on a hot afternoon
2. Which word means the opposite of noticeable?
a) striking
b) imperceptible
c) remarkable
d) evident
Show answer
b) imperceptible
