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
Words Nearby nameless
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How to use nameless in a sentence
“Too often the injustices neglect nameless faces and stories,” Dandolo writes in an email.
Of Cuban Spies, a Baby, and a Filmmaker: The Strange Tale of the Cuban Five | Nina Strochlic | December 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWe laughed hard, harder even than those nameless, faceless laughers in whatever mysterious locale Bill Cosby was performing.
A nameless, faceless entity known to his followers as Spot News, the handle of his Twitter and Instagram accounts.
Brat is going to make Brown look like a nameless session guitar player.
Eric Cantor’s Primary Loss Is a Political Earthquake. And It’s Awful. | Michael Tomasky | June 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThough Rodin may well have known his models, they remain nameless representations of “a” body.
Her eyes, for a moment, fixed themselves with a horrid conviction of a wide and nameless treachery.
The Pastor's Fire-side Vol. 3 of 4 | Jane PorterIf he has higher views for his son than a marriage with a nameless girl like me, his son should be the last to find fault.
The World Before Them | Susanna MoodieA moment later there was Something nearly at his left elbow, and he smelt again the nameless, fœtid reek.
Uncanny Tales | VariousThe loping pursuit of that nameless, shapeless Something sounded like an echo in his head.
Uncanny Tales | VariousAn M.P., who shall be nameless, supplies me with an apt illustration of East Anglian dialect.
East Anglia | J. Ewing Ritchie
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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