unrecognisable
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.17 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "To nostalgic eyes they became absolutely and almost mercifully unrecognisable. Nor did they escape a full measure of denigration."
- "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."
- "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."
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.
Usage
- British usage
Inflected Forms
more unrecognisable (comparative)
most unrecognisable (superlative)