Word.ws English Dictionary

recognisable

UK/ˈɹɛkə(ɡ)naɪzəbl̩/

More pronunciations (1)Fewer pronunciations

obsolete/ɹɪˈkɒɡnɪzəbl̩/

recognisable adjective: able to be recognised.

Adjective

recognisable (comparative more recognisable, superlative most recognisable)

  1. (UK) Able to be recognised.
    • Whistle's creation stems from an internal colleague competition run by Northern to design a recognisable and approachable character to act as a mascot.2022 November 30, “Stop & Examine”, in RAIL, number 971, page 87
    • The Forth Rail Bridge, which spans the Firth of Forth seven miles to the north west of Edinburgh, is arguably one of the most recognisable bridges in the world.2025 October 1, Chris Howe, “Top 10: Britain's most significant rail bridges”, in RAIL, number 1045, page 56

Antonyms of recognisable

Forms of recognisable

comparativemore recognisable
superlativemost recognisable
alternative formrecognizable

Origin of recognisable

From recognise + -able.

Words formed from recognisable

Questions about recognisable

What does recognisable mean?
Recognisable means able to be recognised.
What part of speech is recognisable?
Recognisable is an adjective.
How do you pronounce recognisable?
Recognisable is pronounced /ˈɹɛkə(ɡ)naɪzəbl̩/ (UK).

Words near recognisable in the dictionary

  1. recogitation
  2. recogitations
  3. recognin
  4. recognins
  5. recognisability
  6. recognisable
  7. recognisably
  8. recognisance
  9. recognisances
  10. recognise
  11. recogniseable

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: recognisable (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “recognisable.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/recognisable. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.