nameless - definition, synonyms and pronunciation

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being or having an unknown or unnamed source“a poem by an unknown author”“corporations responsible to nameless owners”“an unnamed donor”Synonyms: unidentified unknown unnamedOpposite onymousSimilar anonymous, anon.

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Name′less adjective

1. Without a name; not having been given a name; as, a nameless star. Edmund Waller

2. Undistinguished; not noted or famous.

A nameless dwelling and an unknown name.— Walter Harte

3. Not known or mentioned by name; anonymous; as, a nameless writer.“Nameless pens.” Francis Atterbury

4. Unnameable; indescribable; inexpressible.

But what it is, that is not yet known; what I can not name; 't is nameless woe,I wot.— William Shakespeare

I have a nameless horror of the man.— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54