Definition of Unknown
Adjective: unknown ,ún'nown
- Not known
"an unknown amount"; "an unknown island"; "an unknown writer"; "an unknown source"
- Being or having a source that is not known or who's name is unknown
"a poem by an unknown author";
- nameless, unidentified, unnamed
- Not known to exist
"things obscurely felt surged up from unknown depths"
- Not famous or acclaimed
"an unknown family";
- obscure, unsung
- Not known before
"don't let anyone unknown into the house";
- strange
- An unknown and unexplored region
"they came like angels out of the unknown";
- unknown region, terra incognita
- Anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found
- stranger, alien
- A variable whose values are solutions of an equation
- unknown quantity
See also:
unknowledgeable
unknowns
Anagrams containing the word unknown