Converse of object

• know: He not only knows the knowable, He knows the unknowable.

Modifies a noun

• future: Schooling cannot only be about preparation for what is in many ways an unknowable employment future.

• world: For Kant the subject of ' God ' falls into the category of the unknowable metaphysical world.

• mystery: Surreal, fast-paced, this ruined puzzle and hauntingly dreamlike, Abe's masterly novel delves into the unknowable mysteries of the human mind.

• essence: It is a novel about the mysterious and unknowable essence of the creative genius, about love and about death.

• factor: Too many unknowable factors are required to make the call.

• source: Look beyond the objects of experience to the unknowable source of all appearing things.

Modifying Another Word

• essentially: However, future performance is essentially unknowable, given that it lies in the future.

• otherwise: Hick feels that all religions are manmade views of the utterly transcendent and otherwise unknowable God, and should be viewed as such.

• inherently: Unfortunately, risks which are inherently unknowable will always be able to surprise even the most expert user of the " risk radar " .

• ultimately: Truth, ultimately unknowable, often matters less than perceptions of it.

• possibly: Money is going in increasingly large amounts into a Black Hole of unknown and possibly unknowable size What is the Government doing?

• conventionally: Who wants to know the conventionally unknowable enough to devise and use a system like the Yi?

Noun used with modifier

• principle: Kant held that " things-in-themselves " ( beyond sensation ) were in principle unknowable - only " phenomena " are knowable.