unbeknown

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Adverb
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un=be=known

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective unbeknown has 1 sense

  • unbeknown(s = adj.all) unbeknownst - (usually used with `to') occurring or existing without the knowledge of; "a crisis unbeknown to me"; "she had been ill for months, unbeknownst to the family"

Adverbial unbeknown has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

unbeknowna. 
     Not known; unknown.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

unbeknown, adj. (also unbeknownst) (foll. by to) without the knowledge of (was there all the time unbeknown to us).

Etymology
UN-(1) + beknown (archaic) = KNOWN

THESAURUS

unbeknown

able, enigmatic, incalculable, incognizable, mysterious, puzzling, sealed, strange, unapparent, unapprehended, unascertained, uncharted, unclassified, undisclosed, undiscoverable, undiscovered, undivulged, unexplained, unexplored, unexposed, unfamiliar, unfathomed, unheard, unheard-of, unidentified, uninvestigated, unknowable, unknown, unperceived, unplumbed, unrevealed, unsuspected, untouched, virgin

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