I’m looking for a word that can substitute an object, whose name is unknown to the speaker.
I’m aware that there are words like «whatsamacallit», «thingamabob», etc., but they seem to be colloquial and I have never heard/seen any such word used in a formal setting. Is any of these common placeholder words appropriate in any situation?
For example, let’s say I want to compliment a stranger, but I don’t know the English word that represents the object I’m talking about: «You have a nice [placeholder]».
What should the placeholder be?
EDIT: I got some feedback that I should provide more examples. So here are some more:
«My [placeholder] will come soon» (Waiting at the train station and not knowing the word «train»)
«Where can I throw away my [placeholder] after I’ve finished eating the banana?» (Not knowing the word «peel»)
Just to clarify, what I’m looking for is a universal substitution for any noun that can’t be said for whatever valid reason (like not knowing or having forgotten how something is called) so that the sentence doesn’t need to be altered in any way. Pretty much like a pronoun, except that you can’t just strictly replace a noun with a pronoun. I have never heard anyone say something like «You have a nice it» or «I’m waiting for my it».
If what I’m asking for doesn’t exist, I’m willing to accept that as an answer, preferably with some explanation/hypothesis why there isn’t such a word.
What is another word for unknown?
654 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ ʌnnˈə͡ʊn], [ ʌnnˈəʊn], [ ʌ_n_n_ˈəʊ_n]
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Similar words for unknown:
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all (adjective)
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clouded (adjective)
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extinct (adjective)
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foreign (adjective)
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hidden (adjective)
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ignorant (adjective)
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incognito (adjective)
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indefinite (adjective)
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mysterious (adjective)
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mystifying (adjective)
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new (adjective)
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obscure (adjective)
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obscure, mysterious (adjective)
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occult (adjective)
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other relevant words (adjective)
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remote (adjective)
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secret (adjective)
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strange (adjective)
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supernatural (adjective)
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superphysical (adjective)
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supersensible (adjective)
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unaccustomed (adjective)
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unacquainted (adjective)
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undetected (adjective)
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undetermined (adjective)
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undiscovered (adjective)
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unexposed (adjective)
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unfamiliar (adjective)
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unheard-of (adjective)
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unheralded (adjective)
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unidentified (adjective)
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unnamed (adjective)
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unsung (adjective)
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untold (adjective)
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vague (adjective)
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alien (noun)
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anonymous (noun)
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chartless (noun)
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dark horse (noun)
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dishonorable (noun)
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frontier (noun)
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inglorious (noun)
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nameless (noun)
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other relevant words (noun)
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secret (noun)
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stranger (noun)
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terra incognita (noun)
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transcendent (noun)
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undiagnosed (noun)
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unknown (noun)
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world beyond (noun)
- other synonyms
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comprehended
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stimulating
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unrecorded
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unsung
How to use «unknown» in context?
Paraphrases
for unknown
Antonyms for unknown
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adj.
• all (adjective)
- unknown.
• clouded (adjective)
- in decisive,
- in-conclusive,
- in conclusive,
- in-decisive.
• extinct (adjective)
- dis appeared,
- more doused,
- dead gone,
- ex-terminated,
- by-gone,
- most abolished,
- de-parted,
- in-active,
- more exterminated,
- ex-animate,
- by gone,
- ex animate,
- in active,
- terminated,
- most exterminated,
- dis-appeared,
- most doused,
- most extinguished,
- more disappeared,
- de ceased,
- more abolished,
- most terminated,
- more extinguished,
- de-ceased,
- more vanquished,
- more exanimate,
- most exanimate,
- de parted,
- most vanquished,
- ex terminated,
- more terminated,
- most disappeared.
• foreign (adjective)
- in accessible,
- ex-patriate,
- non native,
- extra local,
- de-rived,
- more expatriate,
- most transoceanic,
- most nonnative,
- un explored,
- ex patriate,
- de rived,
- more immigrant,
- most expatriate,
- more estranged,
- trans-oceanic,
- faroff,
- more exiled,
- most exiled,
- over-seas,
- more adopted,
- non resident,
- extra-local,
- most nonresident,
- more nonresident,
- far fetched,
- un-explored,
- in-accessible,
- most adopted,
- more nonnative,
- trans oceanic,
- out side,
- over seas,
- most estranged,
- more transoceanic,
- most extralocal,
- extrinsic,
- most immigrant,
- more extralocal,
- nonresident.
• hidden (adjective)
- in-visible,
- most sequestered,
- more unrevealed,
- in discernible,
- more eclipsed,
- Imperceivable,
- most imperceivable,
- dis guised,
- more hermetical,
- in dark,
- withheld,
- hermetic,
- more imperceivable,
- with held,
- more shrouded,
- un disclosed,
- out view,
- under-cover,
- under-ground,
- most unrevealed,
- most shrouded,
- dis-guised,
- in-discernible,
- un-disclosed,
- masked,
- more sequestered,
- under cover,
- most hermetical,
- un revealed,
- un-revealed,
- in visible,
- most eclipsed,
- with-held.
• ignorant (adjective)
- unacquainted.
• incognito (adjective)
- Incog,
- under assumed name,
- unrecognized.
• indefinite (adjective)
- in tangible,
- in-distinct,
- un-defined,
- un sure,
- un-specific,
- un fixed,
- un defined,
- more unspecific,
- in determinate,
- most unfixed,
- more unfixed,
- in-finite,
- un-clearest,
- innumerable,
- in definite,
- in-determinable,
- most unspecific,
- un-settled,
- ill defined,
- un-limited,
- un specific,
- in-exact,
- more imprecise,
- un clear,
- un clearest,
- un-dependable,
- un dependable,
- in-numerable,
- un settled,
- un-sure,
- in exact,
- in finite,
- in-definite,
- most indeterminable,
- in numerable,
- in distinct,
- in-tangible,
- inexact,
- in determinable,
- un-fixed,
- most imprecise,
- more indeterminable,
- in exhaustible,
- un-clear,
- illdefined,
- in-exhaustible.
• mysterious (adjective)
- in-soluble,
- more sphinxlike,
- in soluble,
- most sphinxlike,
- in explicable,
- most necromantic,
- in scrutable,
- more transcendental,
- un canny,
- most alchemistic,
- un-natural,
- more necromantic,
- un knowable,
- magical,
- un-canniest,
- un-canny,
- most astrological,
- un fathomable,
- un canniest,
- more alchemistic,
- most unknowable,
- more unknowable,
- un-knowable,
- in comprehensible,
- in-explicable,
- un-cannier,
- un cannier,
- more astrological,
- in-scrutable.
• mystifying (adjective)
- mystifying.
• new (adjective)
- newfangled,
- modernistic,
- untrodden,
- cutting-edge,
- unspoiled,
- dewiest,
- dewy,
- uncontaminated,
- Neoteric,
- newest,
- most novel,
- ultra-modern,
- dewier,
- untried,
- just out.
• obscure (adjective)
- seldom seen,
- unnoted,
- irrelevant,
- orphic,
- unhonored.
• obscure, mysterious (adjective)
- uncharted,
- unfamiliar,
- unexplored,
- Unascertained,
- Unapprehended,
- X,
- unperceived,
- concealed,
- Unrenowned,
- such-and-such,
- undistinguished,
- dark,
- uncelebrated,
- humble,
- unidentified,
- unheard-of,
- so-and-so.
• occult (adjective)
- transmundane,
- Acroamatic.
• Other relevant words: (adjective)
- nonnative,
- unfixed,
- undetected,
- non-native,
- alchemistic,
- passed on,
- new,
- out of place,
- incognito,
- enigmatical,
- Amphibological,
- sphinxlike,
- vague,
- extra ordinary,
- clouded,
- Non-resident,
- obscure,
- remote,
- not domestic,
- occult,
- Shrouded,
- supranatural,
- supernatural,
- unknowable,
- astrological,
- under ground,
- unexposed,
- out of view,
- not versed in,
- necromantic,
- indeterminable,
- Superphysical,
- secret,
- not associated,
- unsung,
- Hermetical,
- little known,
- untold,
- extinct,
- in doubt,
- unrevealed,
- extrasensory,
- out of contact,
- unexplicit,
- unspecific,
- Unconversant,
- dead and gone,
- far off,
- no longer known,
- Supermundane,
- romanesque,
- exanimate,
- not native,
- hidden,
- unnamed,
- undiscovered,
- Inconversant,
- foreign,
- transoceanic,
- mysterious,
- from abroad,
- in question,
- strange,
- undetermined,
- uninvestigated,
- superordinary,
- imprecise,
- indefinite,
- extralocal,
- unaccustomed.
• remote (adjective)
- god-knows-where,
- off beaten path,
- in a backwater,
- middle of nowhere,
- off-lying.
• secret (adjective)
- conspiratorial,
- backdoor,
- under wraps,
- cloak and dagger.
• strange (adjective)
- more romanesque,
- un related,
- most romanesque,
- more apart,
- most apart,
- un-related,
- out place.
• supernatural (adjective)
- more supermundane,
- super ordinary,
- most phantom,
- supra natural,
- most superordinary,
- super-human,
- super natural,
- para-normal,
- super-ordinary,
- more phantom,
- super mundane,
- more superordinary,
- fairier,
- most supermundane,
- meta-physical,
- para normal,
- most supranatural,
- super-mundane,
- superhuman,
- more supranatural,
- fairiest,
- un comprehensible,
- super human,
- un-comprehensible,
- super-natural,
- supra-natural,
- meta physical.
• superphysical (adjective)
- extra sensory,
- more extrasensory,
- super physical,
- most extrasensory,
- super-physical,
- extra-mundane,
- extra-sensory,
- extra mundane.
• supersensible (adjective)
- Supersensible,
- super-sensible,
- super sensible.
• unaccustomed (adjective)
- uncustomary.
• unacquainted (adjective)
- un adorned,
- un-acquainted,
- un acquainted,
- un-adorned.
• undetected (adjective)
- most untraveled,
- untraveled,
- un-traveled,
- un traveled,
- un detected,
- un-charted,
- un charted,
- un-detected,
- more untraveled.
• undetermined (adjective)
- unproven.
• undiscovered (adjective)
- un discovered,
- un-discovered.
• unexposed (adjective)
- un exposed,
- un-exposed.
• unfamiliar (adjective)
- more uninvestigated,
- most unconversant,
- un-witting,
- un-versed,
- more inconversant,
- most uninvestigated,
- out contact,
- in cognizant,
- more unconversant,
- in-conversant,
- un versed,
- un initiated,
- un instructed,
- un practiced,
- un witting,
- most inconversant,
- un aware,
- un conversant,
- un-investigated,
- un-aware,
- in conversant,
- un informed,
- in-cognizant,
- un investigated,
- unpracticed,
- un-informed,
- un-instructed,
- un-practiced,
- un-familiar,
- extra-ordinary,
- un knowing,
- un-conversant,
- un familiar,
- un-initiated,
- un-knowing.
• unheard-of (adjective)
- little-known,
- unheard of.
• unheralded (adjective)
- un celebrated,
- un noticed,
- un-heralded,
- un-celebrated,
- un-noticed,
- more uncelebrated,
- un heralded,
- most uncelebrated.
• unidentified (adjective)
- not known.
• unnamed (adjective)
- unsigned,
- undubbed,
- Innominate.
• unsung (adjective)
- unhailed,
- unfamed,
- Unglorified,
- unacclaimed.
• untold (adjective)
- beyond measure,
- unspeakable,
- unnumberable,
- unnumbered,
- undreamed of,
- innumerous.
• vague (adjective)
- more blurred,
- most amphibological,
- more unexplicit,
- un-specified,
- un-explicit,
- un explicit,
- most unexplicit,
- be wildering,
- mis-understood,
- more bewildering,
- more generalized,
- be-wildering,
- un specified,
- mis understood,
- most generalized,
- most bewildering,
- more amphibological.
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n.
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- mystery,
- friendless,
- Ostracized,
- outcast,
- uncertainty,
- riddle,
- retired,
- puzzle,
- thing,
- aloof,
- enigma,
- perplexity.
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•
- distant,
- desolate,
- in/out of the public eye,
- exotic,
- unfrequented,
- legendary,
- faraway,
- far-off,
- outlandish,
- antipodal,
- desert,
- far.
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•
- knowledge.
• alien (noun)
- alien.
• anonymous (noun)
- anonymous.
• chartless (noun)
- chartless.
• dark horse (noun)
- un-likelihood,
- little chances,
- poor prognosi,
- up setter,
- up-setter,
- under-dogs,
- un-likelihoods,
- outside shots,
- up-setters,
- un likelihood,
- alsoran,
- unknown quantities,
- poor possibilities,
- hundred to one shots,
- under-dog,
- small chances,
- un knowns,
- poor prospects,
- un-knowns,
- under dog,
- dark-horse,
- poor lookouts,
- un likelihoods,
- poor bets,
- hundred to one shot,
- little opportunities,
- slim chances,
- upsetters,
- un-known,
- unlikely winners,
- stalking horses,
- also ran,
- hundred-to-one shots,
- un known,
- unexpected winners,
- up setters,
- under dogs,
- outside chances.
• dishonorable (noun)
- dishonorable.
• frontier (noun)
- backwater,
- backwaters,
- boonies.
• inglorious (noun)
- inglorious.
• nameless (noun)
- nameless.
• Other relevant words: (noun)
- Incomer,
- strangers,
- little opportunity,
- world beyond,
- poor prognosis,
- outcomer,
- itinerant person,
- out-of-stater,
- stranger,
- uninvited person,
- new arrival,
- unlikelihoods,
- little chance,
- foreigner,
- sleeper,
- Transients,
- unknown person,
- poor possibility,
- frontier,
- poor lookout,
- world to come,
- stalking horse,
- unlikely winner,
- after life,
- incomers,
- outside shot,
- migratory worker,
- unknowns,
- outside chance,
- poor prospect,
- small chance,
- upsetter,
- slim chance,
- perfect stranger,
- visitor,
- unknown quantity,
- visitors,
- dark horse,
- sleepers,
- poor bet,
- party crasher,
- foreign body,
- unlikelihood,
- hundred-to-one shot,
- outsider,
- unexpected winner.
• secret (noun)
- magic number,
- privileged information,
- confidential information,
- occults,
- skeleton in cupboard.
• stranger (noun)
- new arrivals,
- out-lander,
- out of staters,
- itinerant persons,
- out comer,
- in comers,
- out-comers,
- inter loper,
- out comers,
- itinerant people,
- in-comer,
- foreign bodies,
- out lander,
- unknown persons,
- out of stater,
- outcomers,
- out-sider,
- uninvited persons,
- unknown people,
- out-of-staters,
- out-landers,
- inter lopers,
- inter-lopers,
- perfect strangers,
- in comer,
- out landers,
- in-comers,
- out-comer,
- party crashers,
- uninvited people,
- migratory workers,
- out sider,
- inter-loper.
• terra incognita (noun)
- terra incognita.
• transcendent (noun)
- transcendent.
• undiagnosed (noun)
- undiagnosed.
• unknown (noun)
- unbeknownst,
- unmapped,
- unbeknown,
- unknown region,
- unsuspected.
• world beyond (noun)
- after lives,
- world come,
- After-life,
- after-lives,
- world-beyond.
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Other synonyms:
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•
- inconceivable,
- indeterminate,
- intangible,
- conspicuous,
- unheard,
- prehistoric,
- miraculous,
- unpublished,
- undisclosed,
- chicken-and-egg,
- unforeseeable,
- unclassified,
- unacknowledged,
- unheeded,
- unexplained,
- unspecified,
- unidentifiable,
- unrecorded,
- underground,
- misunderstood,
- unremarked.
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•
- incalculable,
- difficult,
- obscurity,
- unaccounted-for,
- uncertain,
- finely,
- unsolved,
- private,
- The,
- invisible.
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•
- undeclared,
- unmarked.
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•
- personal.
• comprehended
- understood.
• stimulating
- exciting.
• unrecorded
- unlisted.
• unsung
- unheralded.
How to use «Unknown» in context?
Most people know very little about things that are «unknown«. These things might be strange phenomena or objects that science has yet to study. Despite this, there are many interesting things about unknowns. For example, an unknown might be something that we currently cannot explain. Furthermore, an unknown might be something that is out of our ordinary experience. This means that we might not be used to seeing or encountering it. Finally, an unknown might be something that is new and different, which means that we don’t know much about it.
Paraphrases for Unknown:
Paraphrases are highlighted according to their relevancy:
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Equivalence
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Adjective
nameless, unbeknownst, uncertain, uncharted, undisclosed, undiscovered, unfamiliar, unnamed, unrecognized, unsung, little-known.
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Proper noun, singular
unrecognized, inconnu.
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Noun, singular or mass
inconnu.
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Adjective
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Forward Entailment
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Adjective
know, known.
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Verb, past participle
known.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Adjective
alien, ambiguous, aware, ignorant, mysterious, obscure, unaware, unclear, undefined, unexplained, unforeseeable, unforeseen, unheard, unprecedented, unpredictable, unseen, unsure, untold, Familiar, unaccounted, Non-existent.
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Noun, plural
strangers, proportions.
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Noun, singular or mass
stranger, gunmen.
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Verb, past participle
understood.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Adjective
strange, well-known.
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Adjective
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We have just started to develop our computer skills and
Мы только начинали осваивать компьютер,
So when we break those rules, we risk losing ourselves and becoming something unknown.
or, in other words, to make an assumption that is held to until evidence arises to refute it.
Доказательства позволяют закону установить что-то неизвестное на основе
чего-то
известного, или,
иными словами, сделать предположение, которое будет верно, пока не появится доказательство его опровергающее.
Usually for fear and anxiety lies something unknown,
something
that you have not encountered yet.
Обычно за страхом и тревогой скрывается что-то неизвестное, то, с чем Вы еще не сталкивались.
ease, trust, and security.
благим бытием, доверием и безопасностью.
Overcome by strange anxiety and
a foreboding sense that he is about to encounter something unknown, Ivan ventures deeper into the forest.
Охваченный непонятной тревогой и предчувствием встречи с чем-то неведомым, Иван углубляется в лес.
It is necessary to admit that at the level of mass
perceptions the Belarusans understand public organizations as something unknown to us, which obviously has nothing to do with the cluster of the organizations
and initiatives we mean when we speak about public organizations.
Приходится признать, что под общественными организациями на уровне
массовых представлений беларусы также понимают что-то неизвестное нам, но очевидно имеющее не очень прямое отношение к тому кластеру организаций и инициатив, которые
имеем в виду мы, говоря об общественных организациях.
As the intuitive flash occurs,
one clearly sees that knowledge is not discovering something unknown— one only discovers oneself!
there is nothing else to discover- but a gradual recognition, in time, of that second of Light which we have all seen.
Когда приходит вспышка интуиции,
то ясно видно, что знание- это не открытие чего-то неизвестного— открывают только себя,
больше нечего открывать,- это постепенное паспознавание во времени того мгновения Света, когда мы видели все.
Some oceanic phenomenon is hidden behind, and this person was just a waving of a depth,
За этим был спрятан какой-то океанический феномен, и этот человек был просто волной из глубины,
Granting such a right would imply recognition of an acquired
right of residence in the territory of a foreign State, something unknown in State practice.
Предоставление такого права означало бы признание приобретенного права на
проживание на территории иностранного государства, то есть нечто, в практике государств неизвестное.
If the accident could be calculated beforehand, the brain would be able to deal with it;
Если бы несчастный случай был просчитан заранее,
I do not understand what happened to me,
I have no desire to work all day beat thumbs, something unknown I am engaged and progressing in work.
Я не понимаю что со мной,
нет желания работать, весь день бью баклуши, занимаюсь неизвестно чем и не прогрессирую в работе.
Old people complain that life went like a blink, but for children everything seems that years go by too
slowly(…)’ For a child‘every hour lived opens as something unknown, curious.
Старики жалуются, что жизнь промелькнула, как миг, а детям все кажется, что
годы тянутся слишком медленно(…)” Для ребенка“ каждый прожитый час открывает нечто неизведанное, любопытное.
Not by accident, not something unknown to the laws of John the Baptists birthday coincided with the summer solstice(old calendar),
and the birth of Christ occurred on the day of the winter solstice.
Не
то
по случайности, не то по неведомой закономерности день рождения Иоанна Крестителя совпал с днем летнего солнцестояния(
по старому календарю), а рождение Христа случилось в день зимнего солнцестояния.
And that’s why ratings should be aimed not at the past, not for the purpose of assessing the results achieved, but at the future- for the purpose of forecasting,
И поэтому рейтинги должны быть ориентированы не на прошлое, не на оценку достигнутых результатов- похвалу достойным и хулу проигравшим,- но, напротив, в будущее- на прогнозирование,
на предсказание неведомого, а проще говоря- на принятие решений.
The instrument offered something previously unknown— zone intelligence and pad layering.
Инструмент предложил что-то ранее неизвестное— зональный интеллект и наложения слоев.
Она может ли кто-нибудь представить себе что-то вроде» неизвестный тип электрического разряда»?
Earlier, in childhood, there had always beed something bright, unknown ahead… Well, life.
For I felt something truly unknown, a feeling of expansion which manifested itself in sensations in the area of my head.
Ведь испытывал нечто действительно неизвестное, чувство расширения, которое проявлялось через ощущения в районе головы.
Working in the construction industry, there is always confronted with something new, unknown and interesting.
Работая в строительной сфере, всегда сталкиваешься с чем-то новым, неизвестным и интересным.
That is why something totally unknown to hatha yoga has to be introduced now:
the body must go through a catharsis first.
Поэтому должно быть внедрено нечто, совершенно неизвестное хатха- йоге до сих пор.
I can come here again and again and
Я могу возвращаться сюда снова и снова и
Adjective
a disease of unknown cause
Much remains unknown about his early life.
Her music was previously unknown outside of Asia.
An unknown number of cases go unreported.
The victim’s attacker was unknown to her.
For some unknown reason, my computer crashed.
a book of unknown poems
Noun
explorers venturing off into the unknown
A fear of the unknown kept her from changing jobs.
The director cast an unknown in the lead role.
We’re facing too many unknowns.
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