Antonyms for unrecognizing

Grammar : Adj

Spell : rek-uhg-nahyz

Phonetic Transcription : ˈrɛk əgˌnaɪz

Definition of unrecognizing

Origin : early 15c., "resume possession of land," back-formation from recognizance, or else from Old French reconoiss-, stem of reconoistre "to know again, identify, recognize," from Latin recognoscere "acknowledge, recall to mind, know again; examine; certify," from re- "again" (see re-) + cognoscere "know" (see cognizance). Meaning "know again, recall or recover the knowledge of, perceive an identity with something formerly known or felt" first recorded 1530s. Related: Recognized; recognizing.

As in oblivious : adj unaware, ignorant

Example sentences :

Then, the next morning, they might meet and pass, unrecognizing and unrecognized.
Extract from : « Idolatry » by Julian Hawthorne

Time enough when he was again flung out on that merciless, unrecognizing world he had come to loathe; loathe and dread.
Extract from : « Garrison's Finish » by W. B. M. Ferguson

On the sheriff he bestowed an unrecognizing nod, on Ross a broad and cordial grin.
Extract from : « Ross Grant Tenderfoot » by John Garland

Aunt Melissa saw him coming, and peered at him over her glasses with an unrecognizing stare.
Extract from : « Meadow Grass » by Alice Brown

He had heard the wailing of the harbor sirens but his eyes had been unseeing—at least unrecognizing.
Extract from : « The Tyranny of Weakness » by Charles Neville Buck

But before the fellows had had time to get much out of me came Jean Marchand, all unrecognizing, to summon me indoors.
Extract from : « Helmet of Navarre » by Bertha Runkle

With unrecognizing eyes turned upon him, slightly bowing a greeting in return, she passed on.
Extract from : « In Kali's Country » by Emily Churchill Thompson Sheets

Hast thou not long ago appeared, veiled in an allegory, before an unrecognizing world?
Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 » by Various

Tall fair men were beginning to complain of her unrecognizing manner.
Extract from : « Diana Tempest, Volume III (of 3) » by Mary Cholmondeley

Rika sank to the ground beneath the unrecognizing glance of Kors; she stretched out her hands to ward off what she felt must come.
Extract from : « Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 13 » by Various

Synonyms for unrecognizing

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