unbeknownst en · ADJ
Pronunciation
Etymology
Variant of unbeknown with excrescent -st.
Meanings
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(not-comparable, with-to) Without the knowledge of.
Theon’s redemption scene convincingly threatens to kill him right there on the beaches of Dragonstone, dying for a good cause unbeknownst to anyone but the rapscallions who watched him die, but at last it swerves into something genuinely heroic.
2017 August 27, Brandon Nowalk, “Game Of Thrones slows down for the longest, and best, episode of the season (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club:He went home early, unbeknownst to his mother.
Synonyms
Translations (21)
bg непознат (without the knowledge of) · de ohne Wissen (without the knowledge of) · sv någon ovetande (without the knowledge of) · eo nesciate de (without the knowledge of) · hu tudta nélkül (without the knowledge of) · cmn 在不知道的情況下 /在不知道的情况下 (without the knowledge of) · sv någon ovetandes (without the knowledge of) · hu tudtán kívül (without the knowledge of) · cy heb yn wybod i (without the knowledge of) · da uden ngns vidende (without the knowledge of) · el εν αγνοία (without the knowledge of) · es desconocido (without the knowledge of) · es sin el conocimiento de (without the knowledge of) · ar مُبْهَم (without the knowledge of) · it all'insaputa (without the knowledge of) · pl bez wiedzy (without the knowledge of) · fr à l’insu de (without the knowledge of) · nl buiten medeweten van (without the knowledge of) · pt sem o conhecimento de (without the knowledge of) · ru без ве́дома (without the knowledge of) · ga gan fhios (without the knowledge of)