Whatever he had learned of himself was here of no avail. He was an unknown quantity.
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Unknown quantity
Synonyms for "unknown quantity" (36 found)
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Adjective(16 words)
undetermined quantityunestimated quantityunfixed valueunidentified individualunknown amountunknown numberunknown personunknown resultsunknown valueunknown variableunpredictable factorunquantified amountunquantified massunspecified quantityvariablevariable quantity
Noun(1 words)
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11 entriescoordinateindeterminate amountmystery guestparameterrandom errorundisclosed quantityunidentified callerunknown measurementunmeasured quantityunmodeled variableunreported quantity
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10 entriesindefinite quantityindeterminate amountundetermined quantityunknown factorunknown quantitiesunknown quantity ofunknown valueunknown variableunmeasured quantityunquantified amount
Inflections
3 entriesmore unknown quantitymost unknown quantityunknown quantities
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8 total sentences available.
. . . the Evening Post of this city to refer to him recently as "the young Belgian painter," and to the general public he is an unknown quantity.
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The big French diesel is something of an unknown quantity, whereas many French-built electric locomotives developing 3,000 h.p. and more have been well proved in service.
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In spite of more than three decades of public service, I knew I was an unknown quantity to many of my countrymen and to much of the world when I assumed office.
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