unbeknownst
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9.1
- adjective
- /ˌʌnbɪˈnoʊnst/
:
sin que lo supiera
- But unbeknownst to me, I was followed home by a secret agent of the police.
Then unbeknownst to me, you suddenly get brought back on.
- Then unbeknownst to me, you suddenly get brought back on.
- I mean, we know for a fact that Laundry Service taped the conversation unbeknownst to me.
- This there's a story happening and then there's a story that the writer is writing, but unbeknownst to him, they both are the same story.
- And totally unbeknownst to him, I had a lot of history with depressive episodes.
- So he needs to devise situations where unbeknownst to them, they lose that fucking belt because it's not theirs.
- And unbeknownst to me, I was, you know, subject to so many investigation that I didn't know about.
- And then unbeknownst to me, when I was done with that class, he spent the next three months doing those training exercises every day for four hours.
- Well, she also has Christmas ornaments and I think we all remember that she said she didn't give an F about the Christmas when she was recorded unbeknownst to her.
- So for some reason, unbeknownst to most of us, Nintendo partnered with Panasonic to create a upgraded version of the Game Cube that could also play DVDs.
- And so that unbeknownst to them is to be testing them.
- So the Army, unbeknownst to me save saved me from that.
- Daytime phone rings, unbeknownst to me in the planning area.
- In, in certain ways, like almost, you know, unbeknownst to you, like, I was a lawyer in San Francisco.
- And unbeknownst to us, we're running into all of this shenanigans.
Examples
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Edgar, the clerk in question, is in love with Rita, who unbeknownst to him, is living a double life.
Academic text (2000) -
And unbeknownst to us, we're running into all of this shenanigans.
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So that right there I think caused some issues unbeknownst to me at the time.
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Then unbeknownst to me, you suddenly get brought back on.
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When he gets up, unbeknownst to him, I'll follow.
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We did accept their offer, but unbeknownst to them, we also purchased a second unit for ourselves off of Amazon.
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Someone called the cops and had me arrested because unbeknownst to me, the park closed at 10 p.m.
Blog text (28) -
Unbeknownst to everyone, that final night before the Christmas deadline, I offered him my Area 51 code, and he accepted.
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Unbeknownst to him, Beckham had played his last game in the famous three lions Jersey.
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Unbeknownst to her, a surprise party was being planned for her birthday.
Synonyms
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1.4
In a way that other people do not know
57
2.5
Other people do not see or pay attention to it
56
2.5
In a way other people do not know
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4.6
Not found or noticed by others
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8.9
Something that happens without someone's knowledge
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5.2
Not seen or noticed by anyone
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9.1
Without someone knowing
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8.2
Other people do not notice someone or something
Antonyms
Idioms
How Known
Surface Forms
Morphology
unbeknownst = beknownst (semi-transparent) = un + beknownst
The negative prefix 'un-' is transparent, but the base 'beknownst' is archaic (be + known) and not fully productive, so the meaning is only partly predictable for learners.
Etymology
The word unbeknownst comes from the parts un- ('not') and be- + known ('to know'), so it means 'not known'. That's why we use unbeknownst when something happens 'without someone knowing'.