单词 | irrecognizable |
释义 | irrecognizableadj. Incapable of being recognized; unrecognizable. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > recognition > absence of recognition > [adjective] > incapable of recognition uncouth1390 irrecognizable1837 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. iii. vii. 199 Mirabeau,..is cast forth..and rests now, irrecognisable, reburied hastily at dead of night. a1849 E. A. Poe Longfellow in Wks. (1864) III. 357 That a lover may so disguise his voice from his mistress as even to render his person in full view irrecognisable. 1887 Spectator 10 Sept. 1209 Of the dead a large number are irrecognisable, so deeply have they been charred. Derivatives irrecognizability n. /ɪˌrɛkəɡnaɪzəˈbɪlɪtɪ/ the condition of being unrecognizable. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > unintelligibility > depth, obscurity > [noun] deepnessa1000 subtletya1387 difficultyc1405 mistiheadc1425 darknessc1450 obscurity1474 profoundnessc1475 obscureness1509 profundity1559 perplexity1563 opacity1575 darksomeness1583 perplexednessa1586 deptha1593 spinosity1605 abstruseness1628 abstrusity1649 inevidence1673 enigmaticalness1684 dark1699 indistinctness1704 confusion1729 reconditeness1779 obfuscity1832 oracularity1840 irrecognizability1847 recondity1856 unrecognizableness1865 crypticity1892 1847 T. Carlyle in Corr. w. Emerson II. cvi. 131 May the Lord..teach us to look Facts honestly in the face and to beware..of smearing them over with our despicable and damnable palaver into irrecognizability. iˈrrecogˌnizably adv. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > unintelligibility > depth, obscurity > [adverb] deeplyc888 highOE darkOE dimly?c1225 darklyc1350 mistilya1382 murklya1400 subtlya1500 obscurelya1527 confuselya1530 diffuselyc1530 confusedly?1531 diffusedly1567 difficultly1568 indistinctly1580 enigmatically1590 perplexedly1603 subtilely1605 abstrusely1611 cloudily1651 oracularly1654 perplexly1670 reclusely1673 irrecognizably1841 Pickwickianly1866 delphically1927 1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes iii. 165 No thought, word or act of man but has sprung withal out of all men, and works sooner or later, recognisably or irrecognisably, on all men! This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < adj.1837 |
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