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unrecognisable en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree English un- English recognise Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English recognisable English unrecognisable From un- + recognisable.

Meanings

1. (UK, alt-of, nonstandard) Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of unrecognizable.
   alt of unrecognizable
   • Standing on the platforms at Derby today, the station is virtually unrecognisable from how it was during the mid-to-late 2000s, when it seemed as if it was in terminal decline. 2019 December 4, Andy Coward, “Derby's crowning achievement”, in Rail, page 57:
   • The station has been refurbished both at ground level and below ground, where the wide, fluorescently lit platforms are an almost unrecognisable metamorphosis of the dingy, reeking Low Level of old. 1960 December, “The Glasgow Suburban Electrification is opened”, in Trains Illustrated, page 713:
   • To nostalgic eyes they became absolutely and almost mercifully unrecognisable. Nor did they escape a full measure of denigration. 1952 January, Henry Maxwell, “Farewell to the "T14s"”, in Railway Magazine, page 57:

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Deriveds

unrecognisably