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least-known

least-known is the superlative form of little-known.

Meaning of little-known

Adjective

little-known (comparative less-known or lesser-known or littler-known, superlative least-known or littlest-known)

  1. Not known about by many people.
    • The Misses Marie Deutsch and Ann Solomon are vacationing in that littlest-known part of the world—New York—and believing in the slogan of “See America First,” they started their vacation by visiting the Metropolitan Museum of Art....1927 September 15, “Vacations: Some Folks Are Away Now and Some Have Just Come Back”, in Albert Deane, editor, Pep-O-Grams, volume 3, number 11, New York, N.Y.: Paramount-Pep Club, page seven, column...
    Antonyms:
    well-known

Synonyms of least-known

Questions about least-known

What is least-known the superlative form of?
Least-known is the superlative form of little-known.

Words near least-known in the dictionary

  1. least upper bounds
  2. least weasel
  3. least weasels
  4. least willow
  5. least worst
  6. least-known
  7. leastaways
  8. leastest
  9. leastness
  10. leasts
  11. leastways

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Adapted from Wiktionary: least-known (page history and authors); little-known (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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