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unrecognizable

/ʌnˈɹɛkə(ɡ)naɪzəbəl/US/ʌnˈɹɛkəɡnaɪzəbəl/

unrecognizable adjective: that cannot be recognized, especially because of substantial changes.

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

unrecognizable meaning in Tamil and Malayalam

unrecognizable in Tamil

அடையாளம் அறியமுடியாத

unrecognizable in Malayalam

unknowable unidentifiable, disguised
തിരിച്ചറിയനാവാത്ത, തിരിച്ചറിയാൻ കഴിയാത്ത, ഇന്നയാളെന്നു മനസ്സിലാക്കാനാവാത്ത, അറിയാൻ പാടില്ലാത്ത, അറിനാകാത്ത, അറിയാൻ വഴിയില്ലാത്ത

Examples of unrecognizable in a sentence

  • A hundred thousand years from now, will Homo sapiens have evolved into beings unrecognizable to their ancestors?
  • The steamroller left her pie an unrecognizable smush.
  • "A week from now, it will be completely unrecognizable," the chairman said.

All 11 example sentences with unrecognizable

Synonyms of unrecognizable

Antonyms

Forms of unrecognizable

comparativemore unrecognizable
superlativemost unrecognizable
alternative formunrecognisable

Origin of unrecognizable

From un- + recognize + -able.

Words formed from unrecognizable

Questions about unrecognizable

What does unrecognizable mean?
Unrecognizable means that cannot be recognized, especially because of substantial changes.
What is unrecognizable in Tamil?
Unrecognizable in Tamil is அடையாளம் அறியமுடியாத. See Unrecognizable meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is unrecognizable?
Unrecognizable is an adjective.
How do you pronounce unrecognizable?
Unrecognizable is pronounced /ʌnˈɹɛkə(ɡ)naɪzəbəl/ (UK).

Words near unrecognizable in the dictionary

  1. unrecognised
  2. unrecognises
  3. unrecognising
  4. unrecognition
  5. unrecognizability
  6. unrecognizable
  7. unrecognizableness
  8. unrecognizably
  9. unrecognize
  10. unrecognized
  11. unrecognizes

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: unrecognizable (page history and authors); unrecognizable (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); unrecognizable (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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