States and conditions
Synonyms for unknown
Synonyms for unknown: unidentified, strange and unsung. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 3 synonyms for unknown
Interchangeable with unknown in this sense
Audited under unknown's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one unknown carries in that sense.
- unidentifiedadjective, in the sense "being or having an unknown or unnamed source"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name unknown as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
Two directions, one standard: one audited under unknown and two under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
being or having an unknown or unnamed source
The parcel arrived from an unknown sender last week.
The true synonym
unidentified
Same sentence, swapped: The parcel arrived from an unidentified sender last week.
Close but different
The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.
- obscure
- underground
- hidden
Where unknown turns up in the game
unknown is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in four other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where unknown is the trap
- mysteriousadjective, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is deep, in the sense "of an obscure nature", and unknown is one of the three tiles that lose.
- strangeadjective, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is unusual, in the sense "being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected", and unknown is on the board beside it.
- undergroundnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is tube, in the sense "an electric railway operating below the surface of the ground (usually in a city)", with unknown sitting one tile away.
- virginadjective, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is pure, in the sense "in a state of sexual virginity", with unknown sitting one tile away.
Play unknown
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so unknown reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because states and conditions is the company unknown keeps.
One vocabulary, two jobs
unknown is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 4. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.