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unidentifiable

The adjective unidentifiable describes something or someone that cannot be recognized or named. If you read mystery novels, you know that a body is often unidentifiable, but the detective figures out who it is by the end of the book and solves the crime.

People aren't the only things that can be unidentifiable. You may see an unidentifiable car — one that is nondescript and has no specific markings or license plates. You may have a refrigerator full of unidentifiable packages, especially if all the labels are missing. It's always best not to leave things in the fridge for months before you try to identify them.

DEFINITIONS OF: unidentifiable

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adj impossible to identify

Synonyms
elusive
difficult to describe
intangible
hard to pin down or identify
unclassifiable
not possible to classify
undiagnosable
not possible to diagnose
unrecognisable, unrecognizable
defying recognition as e.g. because of damage or alteration
Antonyms:
identifiable
capable of being identified
acknowledgeable
capable of being acknowledged
classifiable, distinctive
capable of being classified
diagnosable
capable of being diagnosed
placeable, recognisable, recognizable
capable of being recognized
specifiable
capable of being specified
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