unrecognizable
22
5.8
- adjective
- /ʌnˈrɛkəɡnaɪzəbl/
:
irreconocible
- Todd told me that the whole area would be unrecognizable in a year.
- become unrecognizable
- rendered unrecognizable
- virtually unrecognizable
And you know, you, my life is so unrecognizable now from that.
- And you know, you, my life is so unrecognizable now from that.
- The left is unrecognizable even to most of the left these days.
- But he had lost so much weight that he was unrecognizable to me.
- And he ended up dying, they said, like it was unrecognizable.
- See, the thing about rituals is that just one great ritual can make your life unrecognizable in three months time.
- It means that, yeah, it just means that both parties have gone so far to the left that they're unrecognizable right now.
- Ideas of the institute are in the Senate bill, you know, but they have been taken in directions which, you know, make them almost unrecognizable.
- And I, I just caught the, the fact that she had lost that Spanish, whatever Spanish she had was broken or that completely unrecognizable to me.
- And I'm becoming similarly unrecognizable to them that it's just again, you know, it.
- I have never heard God's voice so clearly and unrecognizable to the people that only knew us by our wound.
- But we we go through enormous physiological changes and grandfathers are unrecognizable.
Examples
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The townspeople vehemently objected because their community would become unrecognizable and their bonds to the place would be destroyed.
Academic text (2011) -
Bankruptcy case administration in 1926 proceeded in an environment that would be largely unrecognizable to today's bankruptcy professionals.
Academic text (2017) -
I believe that her life is going to be unrecognizable this time next year.
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This voice is unrecognizable to me.
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In two days, he'll be unrecognizable.
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Yet the original goal is almost unrecognizable in the modern statute, as applied.
Academic text (1998) -
The shore and the area behind it were unrecognizable, buried in an enormous deposit of mud.
Fiction book (2000) -
Here, the artist is rendered unrecognizable by a mask of cloth, paint, and candles.
Academic text (2009) -
Today that toponym is blissfully unrecognizable to most residents of the tiny Chihuahua border town.
Academic text (1996) -
The house after the storm was completely unrecognizable, buried under fallen trees and debris.
Synonyms
9
6.1
You cannot tell what something or someone is
4
8.8
Hard to see, hear, or notice
Not possible for people to know or understand
Not possible for people to know or understand
Antonyms
How Recognizable
- US
65
2.3
∞
1.0
913
2.0
22
5.8
9
6.1
Surface Forms
Morphology
unrecognizable = recognizable (transparent) = un + recognize + able
The adjective 'recognizable' simply means 'able to be recognized', and adding the productive negating prefix 'un-' yields 'not able to be recognized' in a straightforward way.
Etymology
The word unrecognizable is made of three parts: un- meaning 'not', recognize (with re- meaning 'again' and a part that means 'know'), and -able meaning 'able to'. So it literally means 'not able to be known again', which is why we use it for something changed so much you cannot identify it.