Meaning of NAMELESS
| Pronunciation: | | 'neymlis
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| | Definition: | | [adj] being or having an unknown or unnamed source; "a poem by an unknown author"; "corporations responsible to nameless owners"; "an unnamed donor" |
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| | Synonyms: | | anonymous, unidentified, unknown, unnamed |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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; ?t is nameless woe,I wot. --Shak.
I have a nameless horror of the man. --Hawthorne.
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| | Related Terms: | | abominable, anonymous, cryptonymic, cryptonymous, horrible, ignotus, incognito, indefinable, indescribable, ineffable, inexpressible, inglorious, innominate, little known, no credit to, obscure, renownless, repulsive, unacknowledged, uncelebrated, undefined, undesignated, undistinguished, unfamed, unglorified, unheard-of, unhonored, unidentified, unknown, unmentionable, unnamed, unnotable, unnoted, unnoticed, unpopular, unremarked, unrenowned, unspeakable, unspecified, unsung, unutterable, without a name |
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