irrecognizable

• irrecognisable

ir- +‎ recognizable

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪˈɹɛkə(ɡ)naɪzəbəl/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪˈɹɛkəɡnaɪzəbəl/, (nonstandard) /ˈɹɛkənaɪzəbəl/
• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /ɪɹɪˈkɒɡnɪzəbəl/[1]

irrecognizable (comparative more irrecognizable, superlative most irrecognizable)

1. (archaic, rare) Unable to be recognized.[2]
   • 1850, Thomas Carlyle, “The Stump Orator”, in Latter Day Pamphlets:

     The immortal gods are there (quite irrecognizable under these disguises), and also the lowest broken valets.

   • 1902 March 15, “Judge Endlich on Early Life in Berks”, in Reading Eagle, USA, retrieved 26 Aug. 2010, page 11:

     [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.

   • c. 1933, Clark Ashton Smith, “The Light from Beyond”, in The White Sybil and Other Stories, 2005 edition, page 142:

     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.

• unrecognizable

• irrecognizability
• irrecognizably