unrecognizable
adjective
un·rec·og·niz·able
ˌən-ˈre-kəg-ˌnī-zə-bəl 
-kig-
: incapable of being identified or recognized : not recognizable
The beaches were unrecognizable after the hurricane.
He was unrecognizable without his mustache.
unrecognizableness
noun
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The season 5 finale saw an unrecognizable patient admitted to the hospital after saving a stranger, and getting hit by a bus in the process.
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Shania Russell, EW.com, 2 Apr. 2025
So writing this book has felt, in some way, like a furious documentation of a disappearing world, a way to resist waking up one day into a totally unrecognizable reality, advanced beyond our wildest imaginations yet with our personal histories and quiet joys lost to the unreliability of memory.
—Emma Alpern, Vulture, 2 Apr. 2025
That’s especially true of medic and sniper Elliot Miller, played here by an unrecognizable Cosmo Jarvis, whose rifle scope doubles as a lens onto the past.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 28 Mar. 2025
Businesses were destroyed, schools were torn apart and vehicles were rendered unrecognizable while tons of dangerous debris covered the city — all of which would take years to clean up.
—Alex Gurley, People.com, 19 Mar. 2025
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Shania Russell, EW.com, 2 Apr. 2025
So writing this book has felt, in some way, like a furious documentation of a disappearing world, a way to resist waking up one day into a totally unrecognizable reality, advanced beyond our wildest imaginations yet with our personal histories and quiet joys lost to the unreliability of memory.
—Emma Alpern, Vulture, 2 Apr. 2025
That’s especially true of medic and sniper Elliot Miller, played here by an unrecognizable Cosmo Jarvis, whose rifle scope doubles as a lens onto the past.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 28 Mar. 2025
Businesses were destroyed, schools were torn apart and vehicles were rendered unrecognizable while tons of dangerous debris covered the city — all of which would take years to clean up.
—Alex Gurley, People.com, 19 Mar. 2025
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“Unrecognizable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unrecognizable. Accessed 8 Apr. 2025.
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