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nameless

[neym-lis]

adjective

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.

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having no legitimate paternal name, as a child born out of wedlock.

unknown to fame; obscure: a nameless poet; nameless defenders of the country.

COLLAPSE

Origin:
1275–1325; Middle English; see name, -less

Related forms

name·less·ly, adverb

name·less·ness, noun

qua·si-name·less, adjective

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nameless (ˈneɪmlɪs)

—*adj*
1.	without a name; anonymous
2.	incapable of being named; indescribable: a nameless horror seized him
3.	too unpleasant or disturbing to be mentioned: nameless atrocities
4.	having no legal name; illegitimate: a nameless child

'namelessly

—*adv*

'namelessness

—n

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"And even my sense of identity was wrapped in a namelessness often hard to penetrate, as we have just seen I think. And so on for all the other things which made merry with my senses. Yes, even then, when already all was fading, waves and particles, there could be no things but nameless things, no names but thingless names. I say that now, but after all what do I know now about then, now when the icy words hail down upon me, the icy meanings, and the world dies too, foully named."

-Samuel Beckett

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