unrecognized
3
4.2
- adjective
- /ˌʌnˈrɛkəɡnaɪzd/
- He walked through the crowded market, feeling completely unrecognized by anyone around him.
- go unrecognized
- often unrecognized
- previously unrecognized
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Watch on YouTubeThey're living in obscurity, they're untrusted, unrecognized, unknown.
- They're living in obscurity, they're untrusted, unrecognized, unknown.
- And how are unrecognized tribes being included in these discussions and decisions which may affect them?
- The recognized and unrecognized traumas of your past may have taught you to hide your gifts and voice in order to survive.
- It disappears back into nowhere and yet unrecognized.
- And the little girl feels slain and unrecognized.
Examples
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There are three primary reasons why the extent of this common disorder has gone largely unrecognized until recently.
Academic text (1999) -
Dance is unrecognized as a distinct subject of learning.
Academic text (1993) -
However, they were not allowed to go back to correct previously unrecognized mistakes.
Academic text (1992) -
In my experience, that uncertainty remains a common and often unrecognized problem.
Academic text (2004) -
It's awful when this happens, even more so when it goes totally unrecognized by one's peers.
Blog text (10) -
Membership in the European Community has a profound, although often unrecognized, effect on the functioning of domestic politics.
Academic text (1994) -
Still today, some women writers of Italian background remain unrecognized because they write with their acquired Anglo or Jewish married names.
Fiction book (2001) -
One section dealt specifically with the previously unrecognized role of women in city munificence and urban expansion.
Blog text (22) -
Her shoulders slumped with the release of unrecognized tension that left her muscles aching.
Fiction book (1990) -
The 1-day program starts with a barefoot walk in which students become sensitized to previously unrecognized phenomena on the ground.
Academic text (1998)
Synonyms
∞
4.2
Not known or named
520
2.3
Not known or named, often with no name given
63
2.5
Other people do not see or pay attention to it
52
3.2
Hidden so people do not notice it
49
7.3
Few people know about it
45
5.2
People do not notice it because someone keeps it quiet
43
4.6
Not found or noticed by others
23
4.0
People do not notice it when it is important
14
4.9
Not noticed because nobody listened
12
4.8
Not noticed or celebrated by other people
8
6.1
You cannot tell what something or someone is
5
6.1
Not recognized or accepted openly by others
5
5.2
Not seen or noticed by anyone
1
6.2
Kept secret from other people
1
8.2
Other people do not notice someone or something
1
6.7
Not noticed or given any attention
1
8.3
Seen by only a few people
1
9.1
Not understood or noticed by most people
Not seen or noticed
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
1
8.4
A territory that acts like an independent nation but other countries do not accept it as a country
How Recognized
- Formal
55
3.5
∞
1.0
16
2.8
3
4.2
520
2.3
456
4.5
Surface Forms
Morphology
unrecognized = recognized (transparent) = un + recognize + ed
The sense is the negative of 'recognized' (not identified or acknowledged), so the negation with the productive prefix 'un-' is semantically straightforward.
Etymology
Unrecognized begins with un- 'not' and comes from recognize, which once meant 'to know again' as re- means 'again' and the rest means 'to know'. So, in this sense, someone unrecognized is 'not seen as someone people know' or 'not identified', for example when a person in disguise is not noticed by fans.