terra incognitanoun [ U ]
uk/ˌter.ə ɪŋˈkɒɡ.nɪ.tə/us/ˌter.ə ɪnˈkɑːɡ.niː.t̬ə/often humorousa place, subject, or situation that you are not familiar with:
Dealing with children is terra incognita to me.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Unknown and unfamiliar
- a pig in a poke idiom
- alien
- foreign
- hidden
- lesser-known
- obscure
- obscurity
- pig
- shadowy
- strange
- strangeness
- TBD
- uncommon
- unexplored
- unfamiliar
- unheard-of
- unknown
- unused
- vocabulary
- wild card
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