anonymous
AdjectiveUS[uh-non-uh-muhs]/əˈnɑnəməs/4 syllables
Synonyms:
anon.
Open English WordNet
Adjective (2)
- having no known name or identity or known source“anonymous authors”“anonymous donors”“an anonymous gift”Synonyms: anon.Similar nameless, unidentified
- not known or lacking marked individuality“brown anonymous houses”“anonymous bureaucrats in the Civil Service”Opposite facedSimilar faceless
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Translations
Adjective wanting a name, not named and determined
- Spanish
- anónimo
- French
- anonyme
- German
- anonym
- Italian
- anonimo
- Portuguese
- anônimo
- Turkish
- anonim
- Russian
- анони́мный anonímnyj
- Arabic
- مَجْهُول majhūl
- Chinese
- 匿名 nìmíng
- Dutch
- naamloos
20 more languages
- Polish
- anonimowy
- Swedish
- anonym
- Greek
- ανώνυμος anónymos
- Indonesian
- anonim
- Vietnamese
- ẩn danh
- Hungarian
- névtelen
- Portuguese (PT)
- anónimo
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 無名 wúmíng
- Catalan
- anònim
- Czech
- bezejmenný
- Danish
- anonym
- Esperanto
- anonima
- Finnish
- nimetön
- Georgian
- ანონიმური anonimuri
- Norwegian
- anonym
- Romanian
- anonim
- Scottish Gaelic
- gun urrainn
- Serbo-Croatian
- anoniman
- Slovak
- bezmenný
- Welsh
- dienw
Adjective without any name acknowledged
- Spanish
- anónimo
- French
- anonyme
- German
- anonym
- Italian
- anonimo
- Portuguese
- anônimo
- Turkish
- anonim
- Russian
- безымя́нный bezymjánnyj
- Arabic
- مجهول majhūl
- Chinese
- 佚名 yìmíng
- Dutch
- anoniem
17 more languages
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
A·non′y·mous adjective
Origin: Gr. … without name; ἀν priv. + …, Eol. for … name. See Name.
Nameless; of unknown name; also, of unknown or unavowed authorship; as, an anonymous benefactor; an anonymous pamphlet or letter.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54