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unrecognisable

unrecognisable is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of unrecognizable.

Meaning of unrecognizable

Adjective

unrecognizable (comparative more unrecognizable, superlative most unrecognizable)

  1. (British, English, Oxford, US) That cannot be recognized, especially because of substantial changes.
    • 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...2012 May 24, Nathan Rabin, “Film: Reviews: Men In Black 3”, in The Onion AV Club
    Synonyms:
    irrecognizable
    Antonyms:
    recognizable

Forms of unrecognisable

comparativemore unrecognisable
superlativemost unrecognisable

Origin of unrecognisable

From un- + recognisable.

Words formed from unrecognisable

Questions about unrecognisable

What is unrecognisable the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
Unrecognisable is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of unrecognizable.

Words near unrecognisable in the dictionary

  1. unreclaiming
  2. unreclined
  3. unreclining
  4. unreclusive
  5. unrecognisability
  6. unrecognisable
  7. unrecognisably
  8. unrecognise
  9. unrecognised
  10. unrecognises
  11. unrecognising

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unrecognisable (page history and authors); unrecognizable (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.

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