unknown (
http://definr.com/unknown)
adj 1: not known; "an unknown amount"; "an unknown island"; "an
unknown writer"; "an unknown source" [ant:
known]
2: being or having an unknown or unnamed source; "a poem by an
unknown author"; "corporations responsible to nameless
owners"; "an unnamed donor" [syn:
nameless,
unidentified,
unnamed]
3: not known to exist; "things obscurely felt surged up from
unsuspected depths in her"- Edith Wharton
4: not famous or acclaimed; "an obscure family"; "unsung heroes
of the war" [syn:
obscure,
unsung]
5: not known before; "used many strange words"; "saw many
strange faces in the crowd"; "don't let anyone unknown
into the house" [syn:
strange]
n 1: an unknown and unexplored region; "they came like angels out
the unknown" [syn:
unknown region,
terra incognita]
2: anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they
are found [syn:
stranger,
alien]
3: a variable whose values are solutions of an equation [syn: {unknown
quantity}]