nameless
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4.4
- adjective
- /ˈneɪmləs/
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anónimo
- In the crowded room, she felt like just a nameless face among the many.
- remain nameless
- a nameless narrator
- faceless and nameless
He flung the cats into the nameless moon of Arrochisia.
- He flung the cats into the nameless moon of Arrochisia.
- I have actual friends who will remain nameless who I know voted for Donald Trump.
- He, for reasons you will see soon, will remain nameless.
- I don't even know who you are, my nameless hero.
- So I put our minder, our handler who will remain nameless, who is the equivalent of a three star general.
- Their headlines blurred, dissolved, and went back into nameless lands.
- This is the Army Counterterrorism that remains nameless.
- And like, I took this job, you know, for this company will leave them nameless.
Examples
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Nameless assassins with limited morality.
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A TV network that wishes to remain nameless has expressed an interest in our show.
Fiction book (1995) -
This guy must have remained nameless for reasons that will come clear now.
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I stare at the remains of nameless people in glass cases
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I'm searching for a nameless evil that was buried here long ago.
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A nameless number on a list that was afterwards mislaid.
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We would sit in the dark, night after night among nameless humans, entranced with the miracle of light.
Fiction book (1994) -
But how many of our brothers and sisters wallow in those prisons, nameless and famous?
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In our world, you were either a bully, a toady... ...or one of the nameless rabble of victims.
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In the state of Siege, Bosch's nameless masterpiece passes into everyday life.
Synonyms
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4.2
Not known or named
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2.3
Not known or named, often with no name given
317
4.5
Has no known public name or source
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4.4
Not having a name mentioned or known
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5.9
A person or place with no features that make it stand out
How Named
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Nameless comes from the word name and the ending -less, which means 'without', like in fearless. So nameless means 'without a name' and is used for a person or thing that is unknown or not identified by name.