Unknown vs. Infamous — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Unknown and Infamous
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Unknown
Not known; unfamiliar
A problem unknown in earlier times.
Infamous
Causing or deserving severe public condemnation; heinous
"No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury" (US Constitution, Amendment 5).
Unknown
Not identified, ascertained, or established
Received flowers from an unknown admirer.
Infamous
Having an exceedingly bad reputation; notorious
An infamous outlaw.
Unknown
Not well known or widely known
An unknown artist.
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Infamous
(Law) Convicted of a crime, such as treason or felony, that carries a severe punishment. No longer in technical use.
Unknown
That which is unknown
Investigating the unknown.
Infamous
Having a bad reputation; disreputable; notorious; unpleasant or evil; widely known, especially for something scornful.
He was an infamous traitor.
She is infamous for perjury.
Unknown
Something that is not known
This case has many unknowns.
Infamous
Causing infamy; disgraceful.
This infamous deed tarnishes all involved.
Unknown
A person who is not well known, as to the general public
Cast an unknown in the starring role.
Infamous
Subject to a judicial punishment that deprived the infamous person of certain rights; this included a prohibition against holding public office, exercising the franchise, receiving a public pension, serving on a jury, or giving testimony in a court of law.
Unknown
An unknown person, especially an Unknown Soldier
The tomb of the unknowns.
Infamous
Of very bad report; having a reputation of the worst kind; held in abhorrence; guilty of something that exposes to infamy; base; notoriously vile; detestable; as, an infamous traitor; an infamous perjurer.
False errant knight, infamous, and forsworn.
Unknown
(Mathematics) A quantity of unknown numerical value.
Infamous
Causing or producing infamy; deserving detestation; scandalous to the last degree; as, an infamous act; infamous vices; infamous corruption.
Unknown
Not known; unidentified; not well known.
Infamous
Branded with infamy by conviction of a crime; as, at common law, an infamous person can not be a witness.
Unknown
(algebra) A variable (usually x, y or z) whose value is to be found.
Infamous
Having a bad name as being the place where an odious crime was committed, or as being associated with something detestable; hence, unlucky; perilous; dangerous.
Infamous hills, and sandy perilous wilds.
The piny shadeMore infamous by cursed Lycaon made.
Unknown
Any thing, place, or situation about which nothing is known; an unknown fact or piece of information.
Infamous
Having an exceedingly bad reputation;
A notorious gangster
The tenderloin district was notorious for vice
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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