'Unknown' definitions:
Definition of 'unknown'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Not known; "an unknown amount"; "an unknown island"; "an unknown writer"; "an unknown source" [ant: known]
adjective
Being or having an unknown or unnamed source; "a poem by an unknown author"; "corporations responsible to nameless owners"; "an unnamed donor" [syn: nameless, unidentified, unknown, unnamed]
adjective
Not known to exist; "things obscurely felt surged up from unknown depths"
adjective
Not famous or acclaimed; "an obscure family"; "unsung heroes of the war" [syn: obscure, unknown, unsung]
adjective
Not known before; "used many strange words"; "saw many strange faces in the crowd"; "don't let anyone unknown into the house" [syn: strange, unknown]
noun
An unknown and unexplored region; "they came like angels out the unknown" [syn: unknown, unknown region, terra incognita]
noun
Anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found [syn: stranger, alien, unknown] [ant: acquaintance, friend]
noun
A variable whose values are solutions of an equation [syn: unknown, unknown quantity]
Definition of 'Unknown'
From: GCIDE
- Unknown \Un*known"\, a. Not known; not apprehended. -- {Un*known"ness}, n. [R.] --Camden. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'unknown'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- a better place,
- able,
- abstruse,
- afterlife,
- afterworld,
- anonymous,
- beclouded,
- blind,
- buried,
- close,
- clouded,
- concealed,
- covered,
- covert,
- cryptonymic,
- cryptonymous,
- dark,
- dark horse,
- destiny,
- eclipsed,
- enigma,
- enigmatic,
- eternal home,
- fate,
- frontier,
- frontiers of knowledge,
- future state,
- Heaven,
- hid,
- hidden,
- home,
- humble,
- ignotus,
- in a cloud,
- in a fog,
- in eclipse,
- in purdah,
- in the wings,
- incalculable,
- incognito,
- incognizable,
- incommunicado,
- inglorious,
- innominate,
- latent,
- life after death,
- life to come,
- little known,
- matter of ignorance,
- mysterious,
- mystery,
- n,
- nameless,
- next world,
- no credit to,
- obfuscated,
- obscure,
- obscured,
- occult,
- otherworld,
- Paradise,
- postexistence,
- puzzle,
- puzzling,
- recondite,
- renownless,
- riddle,
- sealed,
- sealed book,
- secluded,
- secluse,
- secret,
- sequestered,
- strange,
- terra incognita,
- the beyond,
- the good hereafter,
- the grave,
- the great beyond,
- the great hereafter,
- the hereafter,
- the incalculable,
- the strange,
- the unfamiliar,
- the unknowable,
- the unknown,
- unacknowledged,
- unapparent,
- unapprehended,
- unascertained,
- unbeknown,
- uncelebrated,
- uncharted,
- unclassified,
- undefined,
- under an eclipse,
- under cover,
- under house arrest,
- under wraps,
- underground,
- undesignated,
- undisclosed,
- undiscoverable,
- undiscovered,
- undistinguished,
- undivulged,
- unexplained,
- unexplored,
- unexplored ground,
- unexplored territory,
- unexposed,
- unfamed,
- unfamiliar,
- unfathomed,
- unglorified,
- unheard,
- unheard-of,
- unhonored,
- unidentified,
- uninvestigated,
- unknowable,
- unknown quantity,
- unnamed,
- unnotable,
- unnoted,
- unnoticed,
- unperceived,
- unplumbed,
- unpopular,
- unrecognized,
- unremarked,
- unrenowned,
- unrevealed,
- unspecified,
- unsung,
- unsuspected,
- untold,
- untouched,
- virgin,
- what bodes,
- what is fated,
- without a name,
- world to come,
- wrapped in clouds,
- x,
- z