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audibly

Adverb
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

Audibly means in a way that can be heard clearly or at all, distinguishing a spoken sound, noise, or utterance from something silent or barely perceptible.

Detailed Definition
This is a formal or literary adverb meaning 'so that it is heard.' In the poem, it contrasts with the silence around Susan by describing how she mutters her reading aloud.
Example
Example in poetry:
“And sometimes in the silence she / Would mumble a sentence audibly” creates a telling contrast between silence and a voice heard aloud; T. S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” includes voices that disturb private thought; Gwendolyn Brooks’s dramatic monologues make speech socially audible and consequential; a contemporary poem can use audibly to mark testimony emerging from secrecy
Additional Notes
The quoted use is a slightly formal literary adverb that some readers may pause over, even though the meaning is inferable.; Found in the poem, Old Susan by Walter de la Mare
Also Known As
clearly distinctly perceptibly
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