irrecognizable
Pronunciations (4)
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/ɪˈɹɛkə(ɡ)naɪzəbəl/
Pronunciation notes
- Received-Pronunciation
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/ɪˈɹɛkəɡnaɪzəbəl/
Pronunciation notes
- General-American
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/ɪˈɹɛkənaɪzəbəl/
Pronunciation notes
- General-American
- nonstandard
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/ɪɹɪˈkɒɡnɪzəbəl/
Pronunciation notes
- obsolete
Adjective
Unable to be recognized.
Usage- Archaic
- not-comparable
- Rare
- Synonyms
- Examples
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The immortal gods are there (quite irrecognizable under these disguises), and also the lowest broken valets.
More examples (2)
[T]here remains no trace of their having ever existed—outside of course of the family names which are now preserved, though some of them in an almost irrecognizable form.
The loamy ground on which I lay, the scattered fragments of the cairn beside me, and the rocks and junipers, were irrecognizable as if they had belonged to some other planet than ours.
Word forms
irrecognisable