Unchanged in dialect after reinterpretation (9)
I believe the answer is:
identical
'unchanged' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are adjectives. Perhaps you can see a link between them that I can't see?
'in dialect after reinterpretation' is the wordplay.
'in dialect' can be anagrammed to 'IDENTICAL'.
However, I am not clear how this is indicated.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for identical that I've seen before include "Duplicate" , "as B and B" , "Impossible to tell apart" , "not distinguished" , "uniform" .)