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unrecognized
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
previously
▪ This intensive investigative process revealed infection by a previously unrecognized hantavirus.
▪ Their fortunes may thereby serve as an early warning system to humankind of previously unrecognized environmental problems.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Any living system is highly complex and subject to many environmental influences, some of which are probably totally unrecognized.
▪ But to those in distress, and towards unrecognized or emerging talent, he was unfailing in his generosity and support.
▪ For the present she would change him into an old beggar so that he could go everywhere unrecognized.
▪ Most often it is totally unconscious and goes unrecognized by staff and service users.
▪ There have been many adjustments, including some that have gone unrecognized or have been poorly understood.
▪ Those who could walk limped painfully home, in some cases so black with gunpowder they passed unrecognized.
▪ When uninterrupted by unforeseen or unrecognized obstacles, parents will go to great lengths to provide these advantages for their children.
Wiktionary
unrecognized

a. Not recognized alt. Not recognized

WordNet
unrecognized
  1. adj. not recognized; "he was unrecognized in his disguise" [syn: unrecognised]

  2. not having a secure reputation; "short stories by unrecognized writiers" [syn: unrecognised]

Usage examples of "unrecognized".

Lieutenant Repro gave Hope the next name on his list: the most brilliant unrecognized military strategist of the century, doomed to nonentity because of lack of political connections, wrong color, and wrong gender: Lt.

Was it the unrecognized, unallowed sense, that the one of all the world who most longed to have him obey that word, might be today beyond seeing him obey it -- for ever?

It takes a long time to discover, through details like those of our paragraph, that every part of the apparent lapse is meticulously designed, and to reach at last the solution that Nabokov has not merely described the failure to control happiness and promise, but has made the reader experience this loss of control through sharing in his own unostentatious, apparently undeliberate and unrecognized failure - which is ultimately only an apparent failure.

But the essential Boswell, the skilful and devoted artist, is almost unrecognized.

I desire, it is that, nameless, I might plead my case unrecognized as Byblis, undiscovered until my wish were certain to be granted.

Diana, she was Diana come to earth, and Charlie felt such pride in her that he could not speak, but rather ran joyfully past pinyon pine and ponderosa, every now and then a Gambel oak thicket, and water birches with their witchy branches where songbirds startled at two animals of rare and unrecognized species.

Destin, with a known face, was pridelessly glad that he blended into the general dishevelment and diversion of attention to other matters, and was thus unrecognized.

They went unrecognized and uncataloged for several decades but are now listed in textbooks with other accepted finds.

Like most orphans, Homer Wells imagined that he saw his missing parents often, but he was always unrecognized by them.

At the same time, he or she becomes consciously aware of certain aspects or qualities of these stages that were implicit, but unrecognized when confronted in the context of linear evolution.

I must have seen her, and yet I do not think I could have passed her by unrecognized.

And does it not now follow that, in this region, when I see a Plane and infer a Solid, I really see a Fourth unrecognized Dimension, not the same as colour, but existent, though infinitesimal and incapable of measurement?

Heros was, on some unrecognized level, gratified to see that it had all the artistry of a good painting of the subject.

Joel suffered from was still a largely unrecognized condition in the sixties.

Frail fragments come as fraught dreams, and the promise of reunion and rebirth are lost, unrecognized, the redemption promised wandering a tundra alone, howling with the windyet salvation is at hand!