unknown
adjEtymology
From Middle English *unknowen, *uniknowen, uniknowe, from Old English unġecnāwen (“unknown”), equivalent to un- + known.
- inherited from *unknowen✻
Definitions
Not known
Not known; unidentified; not well known.
- I suspect that this large and complex military railway system, shrouded in official secrecy for most of its operational life, remains unknown to many people.
A variable (usually x, y or z) whose value is to be found.
Any thing, place, or situation about which nothing is known
Any thing, place, or situation about which nothing is known; an unknown fact or piece of information.
- Had God walked close beside her into the unknown?
- I think I learned more from my family than they did from me in the brief idyllic time we spent together. None of them much more than a mile from home, they carried the aura of a close-knit community as a shield against against the unknown.
- As we know, There are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know There are known unknowns. That is to say We know there are some things We do not know.
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A person of no identity
A person of no identity; a nonentity.
- How does it feel, / how does it feel? / To be on your own, / with no direction home / A complete unknown, / like a rolling stone
past participle of unknow
The neighborhood
- antonymascertained
- antonymfamiliar
- antonymfamous
- antonymknown
- antonymrecognizable
- antonymrecognized
- antonymwell-known
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at unknown. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at unknown. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at unknown
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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