unidentified

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ identified.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌʌnaɪˈdɛntɪfaɪd/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Adjective

unidentified (not comparable)

1. Not identified; having an unknown or unnamed identity.

   Antonym: identified

   • 2023 February 12, Julian E. Barnes, Helene Cooper, Edward Wong, “What’s Going On Up There? Theories but No Answers in Shootdowns of Mystery Craft.”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     The U.S. and Canada are investigating three unidentified flying objects shot down over North America in the past three days. Militaries have adjusted radars to try to spot more incursions.

Derived terms

• unidentified aerial phenomenon
• unidentified flying object
• unidentified submarine object
• unidentified submerged object

Translations

not identified

• Danish: uidentificeret
• Dutch: ongeïdentificeerd
• German: nicht identifiziert, unbekannt (de), unidentifiziert
• Hungarian: azonosítatlan (hu)
• Japanese: 未確認 (ja) (みかくにん, mi-kakunin)
• Macedonian: неидентификуван (neidentifikuvan)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: uidentifisert

  Nynorsk: uidentifisert

• Ottoman Turkish: بللیسز (bellisiz)
• Russian: неопо́знанный (ru) (neopóznannyj), неустано́вленный (ru) (neustanóvlennyj), неотождествлённый (neotoždestvljónnyj)
• Sanskrit: अज्ञात (sa) (ajñāta)
• Swedish: oidentifierad (sv)
• Turkish: kimliği belirsiz

Anagrams

• indefinitude