unrecognizable

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very different to before, or changed very much, and therefore not able to be recognized:

She returned to the United States to find a country that seemed almost unrecognizable from the one she had left as a young woman.

He had been beaten so severely that he was unrecognizable.

not clear enough or known well enough to be able to be recognized:

The other picture was of an unrecognisable small boy, holding a hand up to the camera.

The truck was flying an unrecognizable flag.