unbeknownst

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
20
Words With Friends
25
Letters
11
Pronunciation
/ˌʌnbɪˈnoʊnst/

Definition of unbeknownst

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (not-comparable, with-to)Without the knowledge of.
    “He went home early, unbeknownst to his mother.”
    “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.”

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Etymology

Variant of unbeknown with excrescent -st.

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