nameless en · ADJ
Pronunciation
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Etymology
From Middle English nameles, equivalent to name + -less. Cognate with Dutch naamloos (“nameless”), German namenlos (“nameless”), Danish navnløs (“nameless”), Swedish namnlös (“nameless”), Icelandic nafnlaus (“nameless, anonymous”).
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Not having a name.
Environmental DNA analysis suggests that the number of species of bacteria that remain nameless to date may well be on the order of many thousands.
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(not-comparable) Whose name is unknown; unidentified or obscured.
Victims of rug pulls are often left with little recourse against nameless thieves.
2022 March 2, David Yaffe-Bellany, “Millions for Crypto Start-Ups, No Real Names Necessary”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 03 Mar 2022:The culprits shall remain nameless here, as some names have been changed to protect the guilty; just don't let it happen again.
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(not-comparable) Unable to be described or expressed.
Minute grew into minute, and still there was no sign of life, nor did the curtain move; but I felt the gaze of the unknown being sinking through and through me, and filling me with a nameless terror, till the perspiration stood in beads upon my brow.
1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, “The Plain of Kôr”, in She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC, page 126:a nameless fear
a nameless unease
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(dated, not-comparable, of a child) Illegitimate.
He said that he would cherish her until the grave, and that he would love her nameless son as though he were his own flesh.
1953, James Baldwin, “Elizabeth’s Prayer”, in Go Tell It on the Mountain, New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing Co., published October 1970, →OCLC, part 2 (The Prayers of the Saints), page 175:
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(not-comparable) Not well-known; not having made a name for oneself.
Nameless and fameless, but tinged with the sadness Rising from organs by seraph hands played.
1886, Horace Eaton Walker, “Harp of my Country”, in The Lady of Dardale and Other Poems, Manchester, N.H.: Browne & Rowe, page 181:Its upland-lawns, and cliffs with foliage hung, Its wizard-stream, nor nameless, nor unsung:
1890, Samuel Rogers, “An Epistle to a Friend”, in Poems by Samuel Rogers, London: George Routledge and Sons, page 74:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| nameles | alternative, obsolete | lexicographic |
Deriveds
namelessness · nameless bee disease · namelessly · nameless finger
Relateds
last-nameless · first-nameless · middle-nameless · no-name · given-nameless · innominate · Christian-nameless
Synonyms
unglorified · inenubilable · enigmatic · degenerate · ungloriful · ineffable · baseborn · runish · nameless · mysterial · unsung · extramarital · untold · deidentified · inglorious · sibylline · fameless · natural · uncertain · unutterable · indescribable · unnamed · undetermined · inexpressible · undefinable · unrenowned · undescribable · indefinable · ill-defined · unglorious · unsung · illegitimate · termless · unhonored · arcane · base born · unwanted · spurious · nonfamous · inenarrable · unnoticed · unfamous · undefined · renownless · nameless · fameless · indicible · base · mysterioso · obscure · unnoted · unspecifiable · systerious · unspeakable · mystic · cryptic · anonymous · unnameable · misbegotten · bastardly · gloriless · mysterious · inutterable · renownless · unreputed · nameless
Translations (57)
he בְּעִלּוּם שֵׁם (having no name) · cs bezejmenný (having no name) · sl brezimen (having no name) · nn namnlaus (having no name) · eo sennoma (having no name) · ckb بێناو (having no name) · hi अनाम (having no name) · es sin nombre (having no name) · he לְלֹא שֵׁם (having no name) · hy անանուն (having no name) · ka უსახელო (having no name) · is óþekktur (having no name) · pl bezimienny (having no name) · ru безымя́нный (having no name) · sh бѐзимен (having no name) · sk bezmenný (having no name) · gv neuennymagh (having no name) · cmn 無名 /无名 (having no name) · eo nenomita (having no name) · kmr bênav (having no name) · bg бези́менен (having no name) · grc ἀνώνυμος (having no name) · fr innomé (having no name) · hi अनामक (having no name) · is nafnlaus (having no name) · sdh بێناو (having no name) · kk атаусыз (having no name) · kk атсыз (having no name) · be безыме́нны (having no name) · sh neimenovan (having no name) · mk безимен (having no name) · bn নামহীন (having no name) · ja 無名の (having no name) · sh неименован (having no name) · sv namnlös (having no name) · sh bèzimen (having no name) · da navnløs (having no name) · nl naamloos (having no name) · pt sem nome (having no name) · lki بێنام (having no name) · uk безіме́нний (having no name) · orv безименьнꙑи (having no name) · ja 名無し (having no name) · he אָנוֹנִימִי (having no name) · el χωρίς όνομα (having no name) · fi nimetön (having no name) · es innominado (having no name) · cs nepojmenovaný (having no name) · bn অনামা (having no name) · fr sans nom (having no name) · fo navnleysur (having no name) · de namenlos (having no name) · nb navnløs (having no name) · tr adsız (having no name) · it innominato (having no name) · hu névtelen (having no name) · tr isimsiz (having no name)