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Irrecognizable vs Unrecognizable - What's the difference?

irrecognizable | unrecognizable | Synonyms |

Unrecognizable is a synonym of irrecognizable.



As adjectives the difference between irrecognizable and unrecognizable

is that irrecognizable is unable to be recognized while unrecognizable is that cannot be recognized, especially because of substantial changes.

irrecognizable

English

Alternative forms

* irrecognisable

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (archaic, rare) Unable to be recognized.Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd ed., 1989.
  • * 1850 , , "The Stump Orator" in Latter Day Pamphlets :
    • The immortal gods are there (quite irrecognizable under these disguises), and also the lowest broken valets.
  • * 1902 , " 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.
  • * , "The Light from Beyond" in The White Sybil and Other Stories , 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.

    Synonyms

    * unrecognizable

    Derived terms

    * irrecognizability * irrecognizably

    References

    unrecognizable

    English

    Alternative forms

    * unrecognisable

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That cannot be recognized, especially because of substantial changes.
  • *{{quote-news
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    Synonyms

    * irrecognizable