Unknown
[ʌn'nəʊn] or [,ʌn'non]
Definition
(noun.) a variable whose values are solutions of an equation.
(noun.) an unknown and unexplored region; 'they came like angels out the unknown'.
(adj.) not known; 'an unknown amount'; 'an unknown island'; 'an unknown writer'; 'an unknown source' .
(adj.) not known to exist; 'things obscurely felt surged up from unknown depths' .
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Definition
(a.) Not known; not apprehended.
Typist: Waldo
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Unascertained, not known.[2]. Mysterious, mystic, hidden, dark, enigmatical.[3]. Without the knowledge of.[4]. Obscure, undistinguished, nameless, unnoted, unhonored, renownless, inglorious.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Mysterious, hidden, obscure, unrecognized,[See JUST_and_HONEST]
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of meeting unknown persons, foretells change for good, or bad as the person is good looking, or ugly, or deformed. To feel that you are unknown, denotes that strange things will cast a shadow of ill luck over you. See Mystery.
Editor: Woodrow
Examples
- Bella asked him, had he any notion who that unknown friend might be? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- These gases, like air, are invisible, and were unknown to us for a long time. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Suffice it to say that when Edison went boldly out into new territory, after something entirely unknown, he was quite prepared for hard work and exploration. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Once--unknown, and unloved, I held him harsh and strange; the low stature, the wiry make, the angles, the darkness, the manner, displeased me. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Between ourselves, what little I have is in that box, so you can understand what it means to me when unknown people force themselves into my rooms. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Lord Mansfield declared that slavery was a condition unknown to English law, an odious condition, and Somersett walked out of the court a free man. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But he lives unknown in England, he is no Marquis there; he is Mr. Charles Darnay. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- After the fall of Carthage the Roman imagination went wild with the hitherto unknown possibilities of finance. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Gerald winced in spirit, seeing her so beautiful and unknown. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Nay, the very animals in a democratic State have a freedom which is unknown in other places. Plato. The Republic.
- Magnificence there was, with some rude attempt at taste; but of comfort there was little, and, being unknown, it was unmissed. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- For on the theory, such strata must somewhere have been deposited at these ancient and utterly unknown epochs of the world's history. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Moreove r, they worked simple equations involving one unknown, and had a hieroglyph for a million (the drawing of a man overcome with wonder), and another for ten million. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Troubled as the future was, it was the unknown future, and in its obscurity there was ignorant hope. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Such people were not realities to the little figure of the English girl; such people were all unknown to her. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Another objectionable circumstance is, that the pokey unknowns support each other in being unimpressible. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Pokey unknowns, amazed to find how intimately they know Veneering, pluck up spirit, fold their arms, and begin to contradict him before breakfast. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Attendant unknowns; pokey. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
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