unknown

Meanings

Plural: unknowns

Noun

• an unknown and unexplored region
  • "they came like angels out the unknown"
• anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found
• a variable whose values are solutions of an equation
• A variable (usually x, y or z) whose value is to be found.
• Any thing, place, or situation about which nothing is known; an unknown fact or piece of information.
• A person of no identity; a nonentity.

Adjective

• not known
  • "an unknown amount"
  • "an unknown island"
  • "an unknown writer"
  • "an unknown source"

Adjective Satellite

• being or having an unknown or unnamed source
  • "a poem by an unknown author"
• not known to exist
  • "things obscurely felt surged up from unknown depths"
• not famous or acclaimed
• not known before
  • "don't let anyone unknown into the house"

Adj

• Not known; unidentified; not well known.

Verb

• past participle of unknow

Synonyms

alien, anonymous, ignote, knownless, nameless, obscure, strange, stranger, terra incognita, unapprehended, unascertained, uncharted, undiscovered, unexplained, unexplored, unfamiliar, unidentified, uninvestigated, unknown, unknown quantity, unknown region, unnamed, unrecognized, unrevealed, unsung

Antonyms

acquaintance, ascertained, familiar, famous, known, recognizable, recognized, well-known

Related Words

hidden, incomprehensible

Anagrams of unknown