Irrecognisable vs Irrecognizable - What's the difference?
irrecognisable | irrecognizable | Alternative forms |
(archaic, rare) Unable to be recognized.Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd ed., 1989.
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* , "The Light from Beyond" in The White Sybil and Other Stories ,
Irrecognisable is an alternative form of irrecognizable.
As adjectives the difference between irrecognisable and irrecognizable
is that irrecognisable is while irrecognizable is (archaic|rare) unable to be recognizedoxford english dictionary , 2nd ed, 1989.irrecognizable
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* irrecognisableAdjective
(en adjective)- The immortal gods are there (quite irrecognizable under these disguises), and also the lowest broken valets.
Judge Endlich on Early Life in Berks," Reading Eagle (USA), 15 March, p. 11 (retrieved 26 Aug. 2010):
- [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.
p. 142 of 2005 edition:
- 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.