unrecognizable

unrecognizable

English

Alternative forms

• unrecognisable (British)

Etymology

From un- +‎ recognize +‎ -able.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ʌnˈɹɛkə(ɡ)naɪzəbəl/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ʌnˈɹɛkəɡnaɪzəbəl/, (nonstandard) /ʌnˈɹɛkənaɪzəbəl/
• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /ʌnɹɪˈkɒɡnɪzəbəl/[1]

Adjective

unrecognizable (comparative more unrecognizable, superlative most unrecognizable)

1. that cannot be recognized, especially because of substantial changes
   • 2012 May 24, Nathan Rabin, “Film: Reviews: Men In Black 3”, in The Onion AV Club‎:

     He’s forced to travel back to 1969 to prevent an evil alien (a shockingly effective, nearly unrecognizable Jemaine Clement of Flight Of The Conchords, playing sort of a psychotic extraterrestrial-biker serial killer) from destroying the world by killing Brolin. Smith is aided in his quest by an elfin, time-jumping alien with psychic powers played by another Coen brothers veteran, A Serious Man star Michael Stuhlbarg.

   Synonym: irrecognizable

   Antonym: recognizable

Translations

that cannot be recognized

Bulgarian: неузнаваем (bg) (neuznavaem) Catalan: irreconeixible (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 无法辨认的, 未被认可的, 未被承认的 Danish: uigenkendelig, ugenkendelig, ukendelig Dutch: onherkenbaar (nl) Esperanto: nerekonebla Faroese: ókenniligur Finnish: tunnistamaton (fi) French: méconnaissable (fr) Galician: irrecoñecible (gl) m or f, irrecoñecíbel (gl) m or f German: unerkennbar (de), unkenntlich, nicht wiederzuerkennen Greek: αγνώριστος (el) (agnóristos) Hungarian: felismerhetetlen (hu) Icelandic: ókennilegur (is) Italian: irriconoscibile (it) Polish: nierozpoznawalny (pl) Portuguese: irreconhecível Russian: неузнава́емый (ru) (neuznavájemyj) Slovak: nerozpoznateľný Spanish: irreconocible (es) Swedish: oigenkännlig (sv)

References

1. Jespersen, Otto (1909) A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles (Sammlung germanischer Elementar- und Handbücher; 9)‎, volume I: Sounds and Spellings, London: George Allen & Unwin, published 1961, § 5.66, page 170.