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.