recognizable

Able to be recognized.

Adjective

  1. Able to be recognized.
    • Pidgin is a combination of expressions and phrases that are recognizable to those who speak it. To non-Pidgin speakers, it may sound like slang. For example, “dat” means that and “fadda” means father or dad. - 2015...
    • This variation is strikingly similar to the Work’s so-called “ballooned droplet” within the circle. The figure in the Work is slightly more bulbous, but it is instantly recognizable as a quotation mark. - 2018 August...

    Antonyms: unrecognizable

Origin

Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English cognize English recognize Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English recognizable From recognize + -able.

Forms

more recognizable most recognizable recognizeable recognisable recogniseable

Derived

irrecognizable nonrecognizable recognizability recognizableness recognizably