quite unknown
Frequency: 6.57.5 per million words
Completely unknown, typical in British English.
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Examples (10)
- His whereabouts were quite unknown during this period.
- The author was quite unknown before her first novel became a bestseller.
- For many years, the cause of the disease remained quite unknown.
- Her early life in the remote village was quite unknown to her city friends.
- The artist's work was quite unknown until a critic discovered it posthumously.
- It's quite unknown how they managed to escape without a trace.
- The customs of the isolated tribe were quite unknown to anthropologists.
- His name was quite unknown outside his small circle of acquaintances.
- The new technology was quite unknown to the general public.
- The truth behind the scandal remained quite unknown for decades.