unrecognized
unrecognized adjective: not matched in memory.
Adjective
unrecognized (not comparable)
- Not matched in memory.
- Not acknowledged; not granted recognition.
- [Never heard of] the Imperial Kingdom of Calsahara? The Conch Republic? The Principality of Sealand? You’re not alone. Léo Delafontaine hadn’t either until 2012, when he visited the Republic of Saugeais, a self-proclaimed micronation in eastern France. He's since become fascinated with "countries"...2014 November 18, Jordan Teicher, “The World's Tiniest Countries and the Eccentrics Who Rule Them”, in Wired, archived from the original on 10 Mar 2015
Examples of unrecognized in a sentence
- The monster goes unrecognized because he looks like a harmless, pudgy nobody rather than like a hobgoblin.
- Hill views the transition to “the postscientific society” as an unrecognized bonus for American creators of new products and services.
- State-building for 'micropatria' such as Liberland often leads their creators to fashion statist iconography and mimic the legitimizing practices that recognized and unrecognized states undertake.
Forms of unrecognized
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Origin of unrecognized
From un- + recognized.
Questions about unrecognized
- What does unrecognized mean?
- Unrecognized means not matched in memory.
- What part of speech is unrecognized?
- Unrecognized is an adjective.
Words near unrecognized in the dictionary
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