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US
/ənˌɹɛkəɡˈnaɪzəbəɫ/
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ADJECTIVE
- defying recognition as e.g. because of damage or alteration
How To Use unrecognizable In A Sentence
- The place changed a great deal and was almost unrecognisable.
- After a week it was covered in slime and almost unrecognisable. The Sun
- Jimmy's jazzing up the song, scatting and improvising - it's almost unrecognizable at times.
- Or, as in the Brezhnev period, they were so emendated in a cretinized two-volume edition of Tkachev's works (in whose introduction the Soviet editors also criticized me and my book on Tkachev ” the first in English about him) as to be unrecognizable ” either as essential Tkachevism or as examples of proto-Bolshevism foreshadowing Lenin's ideology. Lenin & 'The Radiant Future'
- ‘Things have moved on so much that the scene is almost unrecognisable,’ he says.
- He was absolutely filthy - unrecognisable. The Sun
- The designs may become so conventionalized that they are unrecognizable to all but the original artist. Huichol art, a matter of survival: Part Four
- The floors, once covered with the finest parquetry, are unrecognisable, the blinds don't work, the light-bulbs drape from thin wires where lamps used to hang.
- The corpses of the prisoners were nearly unrecognizable from the number of bullet wounds they'd received.
- In "Probate," her life cleaved in half and unrecognizable to herself, Adrienne is forced to pay a visit to Probate court. Dora Levy Mossanen: Master of Dark Tales