unknown
About 33.32 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Not known; unidentified; not well known.
The concept has existed since times unknown.
- noun A variable (usually x, y or z) whose value is to be found.
- noun Any thing, place, or situation about which nothing is known; an unknown fact or piece of information.
- noun A person of no identity; a nonentity.
- verb past participle of unknow
Similar words
unidentified unknown quantity anonymous unfamiliar unheard-of undiagnosed unknowable unsung unbeknownst undiscovered
Often followed by
to in and or but quantity origin reason at
Word family
For some unknown reason the unknown unknowns
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