irrecognizableとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From ir- +‎ recognizable.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ɪˈɹɛkə(ɡ)naɪzəbəl/
• (General American) IPA: /ɪˈɹɛkəɡnaɪzəbəl/, (nonstandard) /ɪˈɹɛkənaɪzəbəl/
• IPA: (obsolete) /ɪɹɪˈkɒɡnɪzəbəl/

形容詞

irrecognizable (not comparable)

1. (archaic, rare) Unable to be recognized.
   • 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.

同意語

• unrecognizable

派生語

• irrecognizability
• irrecognizably

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