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Unclear vs Unknow - What's the difference?

unclear | unknow |

As an adjective unclear

is ambiguous; liable to more than one interpretation.

As a verb unknow is

to undo the process of knowing, to lose knowledge of something.

unclear

English

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • Ambiguous; liable to more than one interpretation.
  • Not clearly or explicitly defined.
  • Not easy to see or read; indecipherable or unreadable.

    • Derived terms

    * unclearly , rare

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    unknow

    English

    Verb

  • To undo the process of knowing, to lose knowledge of something.
  • * 2004 , William Joseph Jackson, Heaven's fractal net: retrieving lost visions in the humanities: Volume 1 (page 205)
    • To awaken the conscious self to the principle of the whole or Tao one needs to forget oneself, so that in knowing one unknows .