NAMELESS

nameless, unidentified, unknown, unnamed

(adjective) being or having an unknown or unnamed source; “a poem by an unknown author”; “corporations responsible to nameless owners”; “an unnamed donor”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

nameless (not comparable)

Not having a name; unnamed.

Whose name is unknown; unidentified or obscure.

anonymous

Unable to be described or expressed.

Anagrams

• Sleemans, lameness, maleness, maneless, meanless, salesmen

Source: Wiktionary


Name"less, a.

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

2. Undistinguished; not noted or famous. A nameless dwelling and an unknown name. Harte.

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

4. Unnamable; indescribable; inexpressible. But what it is, that is not yet known; what I can not name; nameless woe,I wot. Shak. I have a nameless horror of the man. Hawthorne.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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