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unrecognizable

adj.
B2 Upper Intermediate US //ənˌɹɛkəɡˈnaɪzəbəɫ// un·rec·og·niz·able

adj. so different from how you remember it that you cannot identify it. You use this when someone or something has changed so much that you can no longer tell what it is.

adj. so altered in appearance or character that it cannot be identified. Often used to describe physical transformations or significant changes in a person's behavior.


SIMPLE

The old house is now unrecognizable after the new owners renovated it.

CONTEXTUAL

After years of living in the city, the landscape of his childhood hometown became completely unrecognizable to him.

COMPLEX

The digital restoration of the ancient manuscript left the text looking so modern and clean that it became almost unrecognizable to the original scholars who had studied the faded ink.

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