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Definition: Unrecognisable |
UnrecognisableAdjective1. Defying recognition as e.g. because of damage or alteration. Adverb1. Beyond recognition; in an unrecognizable manner; "he had unrecognizably aged". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "unrecognisable" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references) |
Synonyms: UnrecognisableSynonyms: unrecognizable (adj), unrecognizably (adv). (additional references) |
| Antonym: recognizably (adv). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Unrecognisable |
| Specialty definitions using "unrecognisable": moving of boundary markers, moving of national boundary markers. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | There was fire enough to melt them quickly into an unrecognisable ingot. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Unrecognisable" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 98.36% of the time. "Unrecognisable" is used about 61 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 98.36% | 60 | 43,597 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.64% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 61 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "unrecognisable"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | æ— æ³•è®¤å‡º (unrecognizable). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ecognisableunray | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-e-g-i-l-n-n-o-r-s-u" | |
-2 letters: ribonuclease. | |
-3 letters: consignable, ensorceling, nonreusable, nonsurgical, subregional, unignorable. | |
-4 letters: arecolines, aubergines, bengalines, bescouring, binoculars, bricolages, censurable, coarsening, corbelings, cornelians, counseling, encourages, enunciable, ignorances, incunables, incurables, insurgence, neurogenic, neuroglias, recleaning, recoinages, regnancies, unsociable. | |
-5 letters: acroleins, albicores, aleurones, algerines, arecoline, aubergine, aureoling, balconies, bannerols, baseliner, beaconing, becursing, beginners, beguilers, bengaline, bernicles, biennales, binnacles, binocular, bracioles, bricolage. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 6E 72 65 63 6F 67 6E 69 73 61 62 6C 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. .-. . -.-. --- --. -. .. ... .- -... .-.. . |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01110010 01100101 01100011 01101111 01100111 01101110 01101001 01110011 01100001 01100010 01101100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n r e c o g n i s a b l e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 0072 0065 0063 006F 0067 006E 0069 0073 0061 0062 006C 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5580847169817380758567687871 |
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