unrecognized


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unrecognized

(ʌnˈrɛkəɡˌnaɪzd) or

unrecognised

adj
1. not recognized or identified: hitherto unrecognized planets.
2. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) not given formal acknowledgment of legal status: the unrecognized Communist Workers' Party.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.unrecognized - not recognizedunrecognized - not recognized; "he was unrecognized in his disguise"
unacknowledged - not recognized or admitted
2.unrecognized - not having a secure reputation; "short stories by unrecognized writers"
unestablished - not established; "a reputation as yet unestablished"
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Translations

unrecognized

[ˈʌnˈrekəgnaɪzd] ADJ
1. (= unnoticed) [talent, genius] → desapercibido, no reconocido
to go unrecognizedpasar desapercibido
he walked along the road unrecognized by passers-byfue por la calle sin que los transeúntes le reconocieran
2. (Pol) [government, party, country] → no reconocido
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unrecognized

[ˌʌnˈrɛkəgnaɪzd] unrecognised (British) adj
[person] to do sth unrecognized (= without being recognized) → faire qch sans être reconnu(e)
(= unnoticed) [problem, phenomenon, condition] → non détecté(e)
to go unrecognized [problem, phenomenon, condition] → ne pas être détecté(e), ne pas être décelé(e)
There is the possibility that hypothermia can go unrecognised → Il est possible que que l'hypothermie ne soit pas detectée., Il est possible que que l'hypothermie ne soit pas decelée.
(= unacknowledged) [talent, genius] → non reconnu(e)
to go unrecognized [talent, hard work] → ne pas être reconnu(e)
(POLITICS) [régime, government, party] → non reconnu(e)
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unrecognized

adj (= not noticed) person, danger, valueunerkannt; (= not acknowledged) government, recordnicht anerkannt; genius, talentungewürdigt, unerkannt; to go unrecognized (person, talent, achievement) → nicht gewürdigt or anerkannt werden; unrecognized by the crowdsohne von den Leuten erkannt zu werden
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unrecognized

[ʌnˈrɛkəgˌnaɪzd] adj (talent, genius) → misconosciuto/a (Pol) (regime) → non riconosciuto/a ufficialmente
he walked along the street unrecognized by passers-by → ha camminato per la strada senza che nessuno lo riconoscesse
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References in classic literature ?
By some good agency,--possibly, by the unrecognized interposition of the long-buried Alice herself,--the threatening calamity was averted.
Allied with him, on a splendid salary, with princely pickings thrown in, was a lawyer, Larry Hegan, a young Irishman with a reputation to make, and whose peculiar genius had been unrecognized until Daylight picked up with him.
He stood and watched it; and all at once a wild impulse seized him, a thought that had been lurking within him, unspoken, unrecognized, leaped into sudden life.
Possibly there was some such unrecognized agent secretly busy in Arthur's mind at this moment--possibly it was the fear lest he might hereafter find the fact of having made a confession to the rector a serious annoyance, in case he should NOT be able quite to carry out his good resolutions?
But then his trousers were always rolled up at the knee, for the convenience of wading on the slightest notice; and his virtue, supposing it to exist, was undeniably "virtue in rags," which, on the authority even of bilious philosophers, who think all well-dressed merit overpaid, is notoriously likely to remain unrecognized (perhaps because it is seen so seldom).
A spirit that was once a man could hardly feel stranger or lonelier, going unrecognized among mankind, than I feel.
At odd dull times, nursery tales come up into the memory, unrecognized for what they are.
She had preferred the country west of the River Brit to the upland farm for which she was now bound, because, for one thing, it was nearer to the home of her husband's father; and to hover about that region unrecognized, with the notion that she might decide to call at the Vicarage some day, gave her pleasure.
It is true that we have really in Flatland a Third unrecognized Dimension called 'height', just as it is also true that you have really in Spaceland a Fourth unrecognized Dimension, called by no name at present, but which I will call 'extra-height'.
Hence, all my Flatland friends -- when I talk to them about the unrecognized Dimension which is somehow visible in a Line -- say, 'Ah, you mean BRIGHTNESS': and when I reply, 'No, I mean a real Dimension', they at once retort, 'Then measure it, or tell us in what direction it extends'; and this silences me, for I can do neither.
The bowstring and the knife are unrecognized. Civilization has set an unwholesome value upon human life.
Al-Araqib is one of 35 Bedouin villages considered unrecognized by the Israeli government.