unknownadjective
uk/ʌnˈnəʊn/us/ʌnˈnoʊn/B1 not known or familiar:
The exact number of people carrying the virus is unknown.
As recently as six months ago her name was almost unknown in this country.
Unknown to me, she'd organized a party for my birthday.
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- An unknown terrorist group has claimed responsibility for this morning's bomb attack.
- A generation ago, home computers were virtually unknown.
- The article is of unknown authorship .
- The director took a calculated risk in giving the film's main role to an unknown actor.
- The very concept of free speech is unknown to them.
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
- uncharted
- uncommon
- unexplored
- unfamiliar
- unheard-of
- unused
- vocabulary
- wild card
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unknownnoun
uk/ʌnˈnəʊn/us/ʌnˈnoʊn/C1 [ S ] what is not familiar or known:
Racism is in some ways just a fear of the unknown.
[ C ] a person, especially a performer or sports player, who is not famous:
For her latest film she deliberately chose a cast of unknowns.
[ C ] mainly US something that cannot be guessed at or calculated because so little is known about it:
It's the big unknowns that make insurance companies uneasy.
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
- uncharted
- uncommon
- unexplored
- unfamiliar
- unheard-of
- unused
- vocabulary
- wild card
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