单词 | unidentifiable |
释义 | unidentifiable (once / 96880 pages) adj The adjective unidentifiable describes something or someone that cannot be recognized or named. If you read mystery novels, you know that a body is often unidentifiable, but the detective figures out who it is by the end of the book and solves the crime. People aren't the only things that can be unidentifiable. You may see an unidentifiable car — one that is nondescript and has no specific markings or license plates. You may have a refrigerator full of unidentifiable packages, especially if all the labels are missing. It's always best not to leave things in the fridge for months before you try to identify them. WORD FAMILYunidentifiable: unidentifiably+/identifiable: identifiably, unidentifiable/identification: identifications/identified: unidentified/identifier: identifiers/identify: identifiable, identification, identified, identifier, identifies, identifying, misidentify/misidentify: misidentified, misidentifying USAGE EXAMPLESMixed with Christine’s bones were those of her unborn child - tiny, unidentifiable pieces of a life that would never be. Washington Times(Nov 23, 2016) A car nearby was covered in a tarp, unidentifiable. New York Times(Sep 21, 2016) The video, captured sometime this spring as part of CarbonTV’s Eagle Cam, shows a unidentifiable two-legged walking across the screen. Time(Oct 06, 2016) adj impossible to identify Syn|Ant elusive difficult to describe intangiblehard to pin down or identify unclassifiablenot possible to classify undiagnosablenot possible to diagnose unrecognisable, unrecognizabledefying recognition as e.g. because of damage or alteration identifiable capable of being identified acknowledgeablecapable of being acknowledged classifiable, distinctivecapable of being classified diagnosablecapable of being diagnosed placeable, recognisable, recognizablecapable of being recognized specifiablecapable of being specified |
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