Known vs. Unknown — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Known and Unknown
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Known
Past participle of know
Unknown
Not known; unfamiliar
A problem unknown in earlier times.
Known
Recognized, familiar, or within the scope of knowledge
The known world
Plants little known to western science
Unknown
Not identified, ascertained, or established
Received flowers from an unknown admirer.
Known
Past participle of know.
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Unknown
Not well known or widely known
An unknown artist.
Known
Proved or generally recognized
The only known case.
A known authority.
Unknown
That which is unknown
Investigating the unknown.
Known
Something that is known
In this instance, the only known is our actual profit margin.
Unknown
Something that is not known
This case has many unknowns.
Known
Identified as a specific type; famous, renowned.
He was a known pickpocket.
Unknown
A person who is not well known, as to the general public
Cast an unknown in the starring role.
Known
Accepted, familiar, researched.
Unknown
An unknown person, especially an Unknown Soldier
The tomb of the unknowns.
Known
Any fact or situation which is known or familiar.
You have to tell the knowns from the unknowns.
Unknown
(Mathematics) A quantity of unknown numerical value.
Known
(algebra) A constant or variable the value of which is already determined.
Unknown
Not known; unidentified; not well known.
Known
Inflection of know
Unknown
(algebra) A variable (usually x, y or z) whose value is to be found.
Known
Of Know.
Unknown
Any thing, place, or situation about which nothing is known; an unknown fact or piece of information.
Known
Apprehended with certainty;
A known quantity
The limits of the known world
A musician known throughout the world
A known criminal
Unknown
A person of no identity; a nonentity
Unknown
Past participle of unknow
Unknown
Not known; not apprehended.
Unknown
An unknown and unexplored region;
They came like angels out the unknown
Unknown
Anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found
Unknown
A variable whose values are solutions of an equation
Unknown
Not known;
An unknown amount
An unknown island
An unknown writer
An unknown source
Unknown
Being or having an unknown or unnamed source;
A poem by an unknown author
Corporations responsible to nameless owners
An unnamed donor
Unknown
Not known to exist;
Things obscurely felt surged up from unsuspected depths in her
Unknown
Not famous or acclaimed;
An obscure family
Unsung heroes of the war
Unknown
Not known before;
Used many strange words
Saw many strange faces in the crowd
Don't let anyone unknown into the house
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