nameless
having no name.
left unnamed: a certain person who shall be nameless.
anonymous: a nameless source of information.
incapable of being specified or described: a nameless charm.
too shocking or vile to be specified: a nameless crime.
having no legitimate paternal name, as a child born out of wedlock.
unknown to fame; obscure: a nameless poet; nameless defenders of the country.
Origin of nameless
1Other words from nameless
- name·less·ly, adverb
- name·less·ness, noun
- quasi-nameless, adjective
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How to use nameless in a sentence
Lilia Stuart had not failed to repeat Irene's confession of her namelessness to her mother.
Guy Kenmore's Wife and The Rose and the Lily | Mrs. Alex McVeigh MillerThis action ceases; then the fourth state is reached, the state of 'neither-namelessness-nor-notnamelessness.'
The Metaphysic of Christianity and Buddhism | Dawsonne M. StrongAnything to get me out of this hell of deceit, nonentity namelessness.
Garrison's Finish | W. B. M. FergusonLet no one fancy I confess any unreality when I confess the namelessness.
Utopia of Usurers and other Essays | Gilbert Keith Chesterton
British Dictionary definitions for nameless
/ (ˈneɪmlɪs) /
without a name; anonymous
incapable of being named; indescribable: a nameless horror seized him
too unpleasant or disturbing to be mentioned: nameless atrocities
having no legal name; illegitimate: a nameless child
Derived forms of nameless
- namelessly, adverb
- namelessness, noun
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