- Little-known competitor - Long-shot candidate - Outsider (4,5) - person who reveals an unexpected side - Race competitor about which little is known - Unknown competitor
- Competitor unlikely to win - Foreigner - Little fancied competitor - Misfit - Person excluded from group - Rides out upset as it’s not considered likely to win - Underdog
- Little known; abstruse - Hidden from the mental or intellectual view; secret;
abstruse; as, recondite causes of things. - Dealing in things abstruse; profound; searching; as,
recondite studies.