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Incalculable vs Unknown - What's the difference?

incalculable | unknown |

As adjectives the difference between incalculable and unknown

is that incalculable is (not comparable) very great or numerous while unknown is not known; unidentified; not well known.

As a noun unknown is

(algebra) a variable (usually x'', ''y'' or ''z ) whose value is to be found.

incalculable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (not comparable) Very great or numerous.
    • The loss the National Library suffered from the fire is incalculable .
  • (not comparable, mathematics) Impossible to calculate.
  • (comparable) Of a person's mood or character, etc.: Impossible to predict.
    • He is incalculable when he's drunk. He can turn from an amiable person into a violent horror in a moment.

    Related terms

    * incalculability * incalculably

    Synonyms

    * (very great or numerous) huge * capricious, fickle

    Antonyms

    * (very great or numerous) tiny * (impossible to calculate) calculable

    unknown

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Not known; unidentified; not well known.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=The Celebrity, by arts unknown , induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on an afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.}}

    Synonyms

    * anonymous * unfamiliar * uncharted * undiscovered * unexplored * unidentified * unnamed * unrecognized * unrevealed * unascertained * obscure * unsung

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (algebra) A variable (usually x'', ''y'' or ''z ) whose value is to be found.
  • Any fact or place about which nothing is known (as in the phrase "into the unknown").
  • A person of no identity; a nonentity
  • * 1965 , (Bob Dylan), (Like a Rolling Stone)
    • How does it feel
    To be on your own
    With no direction home
    Like a complete unknown
    Like a rolling stone?