Unknown

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Not known; unfamiliar: a modern-day problem unknown in earlier times.
  • adj. Not identified or ascertained: received flowers from an unknown admirer.
  • adj. Not established or verified.
  • adj. Not well known or widely known: an unknown artist.
  • n. A person or thing that is unknown: "the abyss of the unknown” ( Helena Petrovna Blavatsky).
  • n. A person who is not well known, as to the general public: cast an unknown in the starring role.
  • n. Mathematics A quantity of unknown numerical value.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Not known; unidentified; not well known.
  • n. A variable (usually x, y or z) whose value is to be found.
  • n. Any fact or place about which nothing is known (as in the phrase "into the unknown").
  • n. A person of no identity; a nonentity
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Not known; not apprehended.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Not known; not become an object of knowledge; not recognized, discovered, or found out.
  • Unknown in this sense is often used in the predicate, followed by to: as, a man unknown to fame; a fact unknown to the public. In this use it is also often used absolntely: as, unknown to me (elliptically for it being unknown to me), he made a new contract.
  • Not ascertained, with relation to extent, degree, quantity, or the like; hence, incalculable; inexpressible; immense.
  • Not to be made known, expressed, or communicated.
  • Not having had sexual commerce.
  • n. One who or that which is unknown.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. not famous or acclaimed
  • adj. not known before
  • n. an unknown and unexplored region
  • n. a variable whose values are solutions of an equation
  • adj. not known to exist
  • adj. not known
  • adj. being or having an unknown or unnamed source
  • n. anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found
  • Equivalent
    Hypernym
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    region    variable   
    Cross Reference
    anonymous    obscure    stranger   
    Synonym
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    unascertained    hidden    unbeknown    undiscovered    dark    untold    incognita    incognito    terræ filius    uncharted   
    Rhyme
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    Bastogne    Bayonne    Capone    Cohn    Cologne    Dijon    Goan    Joan    Leone    Malone   
    Same Context
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    new    mysterious    remote    invisible    important