Unknown vs Elusive - What's the difference?
unknown | elusive |
Not known; unidentified; not well known.
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, 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.}}
(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)
Evading capture, comprehension or remembrance.
* {{quote-book
, year=1910
, author=Jack London
, title=Lost Face
, chapter=6
Rarely seen.
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Difficult to describe.
As adjectives the difference between unknown and elusive
is that unknown is not known; unidentified; not well known while elusive is evading capture, comprehension or remembrance.As a noun unknown
is a variable (usually x, y or z) whose value is to be found.unknown
English
Adjective
(-)Synonyms
* anonymous * unfamiliar * uncharted * undiscovered * unexplored * unidentified * unnamed * unrecognized * unrevealed * unascertained * obscure * unsungNoun
(en noun)- How does it feel
- To be on your own
- With no direction home
- Like a complete unknown
- Like a rolling stone?
elusive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The elusive criminal was arrested
citation, passage=Charley chased the elusive idea through all the nooks and crannies of his drowning consciousness.}}
- A precise definition of diarrhea is elusive (Robbin's pathology, 8th ed)