Little-known

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Not known about by many people.

    "The Misses Marie Deutsch and Ann Solomon are vacationing in that littlest-known part of the world—New York—and believing in the slogan of “See America First,” they started their vacation by visiting the Metropolitan Museum of Art...."

Adjective
  1. 1
    unknown to most people wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
less-known

Example

More examples

"I have dwelt ever in realms apart from the visible world; spending my youth and adolescence in ancient and little-known books, and in roaming the fields and groves of the region near my ancestral home."

More for "little-known"

SynonymsSentencesPronunciationTranslate

Next best steps

Find stronger synonymsSee usage examplesCheck pronunciationBrowse writing guides

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.