recognizable

English

Alternative forms

• recognizeable, recognisable (UK), recogniseable (UK)

Etymology

From recognize +‎ -able.

Adjective

recognizable (comparative more recognizable, superlative most recognizable)

1. Able to be recognized.

   Antonym: unrecognizable

   • 2015 November 12, Bu Kerry Chan Laddaran, “Pidgin English now an official language of Hawaii”, in CNN‎:

     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.

   • 2018 August 21, U.S. Copyright Office Review Board, “Second Request for Reconsideration for Refusal to Register Vodafone Speechmark”, in United States Copyright Office‎, page 4:

     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.

Derived terms

• irrecognizable
• nonrecognizable
• recognizability
• recognizableness
• recognizably

Translations

able to be recognized

Bulgarian: разпознаваем (bg) (razpoznavaem) Czech: rozeznatelný (cs), rozpoznatelný Esperanto: rekonebla French: reconnaissable (fr) German: erkennbar (de) Greek: αναγνωρίσιμος (el) (anagnorísimos) Hungarian: felismerhető (hu) Ido: rikonocebla (io) Ingrian: tuttava Irish: so-aitheanta Norwegian: Bokmål: gjenkjennbar, gjenkjennelig Polish: rozpoznawalny (pl) m Slovak: rozpoznateľný Spanish: reconocible (es), recognoscible Swedish: igenkännlig (sv) Turkish: ayırt edilebilir, fark edilebilir