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unknew

unknew is the simple past of unknow.

Meaning of unknow

Verb

unknow (third-person singular simple present unknows, present participle unknowing, simple past unknew, past participle unknown)

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

Questions about unknew

What is unknew the simple past of?
Unknew is the simple past of unknow.

Words near unknew in the dictionary

  1. unknapped
  2. unkneadable
  3. unkneaded
  4. unkneeling
  5. unknelled
  6. unknew
  7. unknickered
  8. unknifed
  9. unknight
  10. unknighted
  11. unknighting

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unknew (page history and authors); unknow (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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