dunno

Examples

• All

• Dunno if you will get to see this in such a long thread, but you are correct.

  Blog text (18)

• I dunno, um, I think I'll enjoy it.

  8 Remains (2018)

• - Dunno what you mean.

  Paper Champions (2020)

• I dunno, black and white is kinda boring.

  Fiction book (1993)

• Dunno, would you care to establish the causal relationship between the two?

  Blog text (20)

• 'I dunno, they just don't' is hardly a convincing argument.

  Blog text (6)

• There we were, the queen of diamonds and me, looking like, I dunno, Gaucho Marx.

  The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

• Think about this: if the Rs and Rove were so awesome, couldn't they simply, I dunno, find a candidate who was a good actor?

  Blog text (24)

• "Dunno," shrugged Annie.

  Fiction book (1995)

• "Dunno," she replied when I asked her where the library was.

Synonyms

K

to know nothing

vsdunno

279 3.6

To have no idea about something

allows milder uncertainty rather than asserting total ignorance

D

to don't have a clue

vsdunno

80 6.4

To not know anything about a subject or situation

expresses general uncertainty rather than an absolute lack of knowledge

B

beats me

vsdunno

• Informal

7 8.6

I do not know

is a general informal way to express not knowing rather than a reply

N

no earthly idea

vsdunno

• Informal

5 7.5

To not know anything at all about something

is a neutral informal admission rather than a strongly emphatic denial

F

fuck knows

vsdunno

• Offensive

1 9.9

Tells others you have no idea and is rude

is informal but avoids vulgar or offensive wording

K

to know from a bar of soap

vsdunno

• Informal

9.9

To not understand anything about a subject

is a plain informal way to admit not knowing rather than being figurative

Antonyms

K

to know

∞ 1.0

To have information about something

How Certain

sureness

1 3.6

to know

∞ 1.0

to believe

∞ 1.0

unsureness

3.8

dunno

• Informal

4 9.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology