UNRECOGNIZABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unrecognizable mean? 

• UNRECOGNIZABLE (adjective)
  The adjective UNRECOGNIZABLE has 1 sense:

1. defying recognition as e.g. because of damage or alteration

  Familiarity information: UNRECOGNIZABLE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNRECOGNIZABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Defying recognition as e.g. because of damage or alteration

Synonyms:

unrecognisable; unrecognizable

Similar:

unidentifiable (impossible to identify)

 Context examples 

See if you can contribute rather than try to change their ideas into something unrecognizable—essentially yours.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

In the stern-sheets I found a rusty ten-gauge shot-gun and a sailor’s sheath-knife broken short across and so rusted as to be almost unrecognizable.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Johnson, as Johnson, was unrecognizable; and not only that, for his features, as human features at all, were unrecognizable, so discoloured and swollen had they become in the few minutes which had elapsed between the beginning of the beating and the dragging forward of the body.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)