Nameless

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Nameless \Name"less\, a.
     1. Without a name; not having been given a name; as, a
        nameless star. --Waller.
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     2. Undistinguished; not noted or famous.


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              A nameless dwelling and an unknown name. --Harte.
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     3. Not known or mentioned by name; anonymous; as, a nameless
        writer."Nameless pens." --Atterbury.
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     4. Unnamable; indescribable; inexpressible.
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              But what it is, that is not yet known; what
              I can not name; 't is nameless woe,I wot. --Shak.
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              I have a nameless horror of the man.  --Hawthorne.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  nameless
       adj : being or having an unknown or unnamed source; "a poem by an
             unknown author"; "corporations responsible to nameless
             owners"; "an unnamed donor" [syn: {unidentified}, {unknown},
              {unnamed}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  42 Moby Thesaurus words for "nameless":
     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