little-known

comparative less-known · comparative lesser-known · comparative littler-known · superlative least-known · superlative littlest-known · alternative little known

1. Not known about by many people.

   Some little-known lines belonging to the State exist in the extreme south-west corner of Western Australia, to serve the timber country.

   1951 Februry, K. Westcott Jones, “Some Australian Railway Byways”, in Railway Magazine, page 117

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   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 1

   She turned out a script that was a masterpiece of its kind. On her advice, Rowland engaged a little-known director, Rex Ingram, and an even less-known actor, Rudolph Valentino, to star in it.

   1943, Deems Taylor, “The Twenties”, in A Pictorial History of the Movies, New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, page 116, column 2

   Using pen and sketching pencil with talent, as well as with the advertised “attention and care,” he proves himself to be a perceptive and interesting guide to a little-known region and an even less-known people.

   1964, Rhoda Hoff, “1701, Travels into Muscovy by Cornelis de Bruyn”, in Russia: Adventures in Eyewitness History, New York, N.Y.: Henry Z. Walck, Inc., →LCCN, page 37

   The mayoral race between a little-known congressman and an even less-known businessman threatened to polarize race relations across the country.

   1983, Michael Barone, Grant Ujifusa, “Illinois”, in The Almanac of American Politics 1984: […], Washington, D.C.: National Journal, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 321

   “That is from a ‘Sonnet to Love.’ ” He looked up at Marie and lowered his voice. “By Omar Duvall, a little-known sonnet by a littler-known poet.”

   1995, Mary McGarry Morris, Songs in Ordinary Time, New York, N.Y.: Viking, →ISBN, page 70

   Antonyms: well-known