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unknows

unknows is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 unknows

What is unknows the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Unknows is the third-person singular simple present indicative of unknow.

Words near unknows in the dictionary

  1. unknownly
  2. unknownness
  3. unknownnesses
  4. unknowns
  5. unknownst
  6. unknows
  7. unknurled
  8. unkodaked
  9. unkooky
  10. unkosher
  11. unkoshered

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unknows (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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