The corpses of the prisoners were nearly unrecognizable from the number of bullet wounds they'd received...
The new town would have been unrecognisable to the original inhabitants.
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unrecognizable — index impalpable, inapprehensible, incomprehensible, indiscernible, indistinct, inexplicable, unclear Burton s Legal Thesaurus … Law dictionary
unrecognizable — 1817, from UN (Cf. un ) (1) not + RECOGNIZE (Cf. recognize) + ABLE (Cf. able). Related: Unrecognizably … Etymology dictionary
unrecognizable — (also unrecognisable) ► ADJECTIVE ▪ not able to be recognized. DERIVATIVES unrecognizably adverb … English terms dictionary
unrecognizable — [spelling only] … English World dictionary
unrecognizable — un|rec|og|niz|a|ble also unrecognisable BrE [ʌnˈrekəgnaızəbəl, ˈrekə ] adj someone or something that is unrecognizable has changed or been damaged so much that you do not recognize them ▪ I hadn t been to the city for 20 years and it was almost… … Dictionary of contemporary English
unrecognizable — also isable BrE adjective someone or something that is unrecognizable has changed or been damaged so much that you do not recognize them: They ve built so many new buildings that the town centre was unrecognisable … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
unrecognizable — adj.; unrecognizably, adv. * * * … Universalium
unrecognizable — adjective That cannot be recognized, especially because of substantial changes. Syn: irrecognizable … Wiktionary
unrecognizable — Synonyms and related words: blear, bleared, bleary, blurred, blurry, confused, dark, dim, faint, feeble, filmy, foggy, fuzzy, half seen, half visible, hazy, ill defined, inconspicuous, indefinite, indistinct, indistinguishable, low profile,… … Moby Thesaurus
unrecognizable — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. indistinct, unclear, indistinguishable. See dimness. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. indistinct, indefinite, undefined; see uncertain 2 , vague 2 … English dictionary for students
