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faceless

faceless adjective: having no face.

Adjective

faceless (comparative more faceless, superlative most faceless)

  1. (literally) Having no face.
    • These vague, faceless spectres from my ramblesome past have as much right as anyone else to be ranked among the salvors of the Navy's songs.2015, Cyril Tawney, Grey Funnel Lines
  2. (idiomatic) Having or revealing no individual identity or character; anonymous.
    • A faceless mob attacked the Capitol building.
    • With assembly line consistency, Martin receives countless rejections from faceless editors—a triggering reminder for any literary hopeful navigating the modern culture industry.2020 October 13, Beatrice Loayza, “Jack London gets an Italian makeover in the tragic and romantic Martin Eden”, in AV Club
  3. (idiomatic) Having or revealing no individuality, personality or distinctive characteristics.
    • I started working for a faceless corporation.
    • The highest official in Oran remains anonymous, referred to merely as "the Prefect." Use of the majusculed generic title instead of a proper name is less suggestive of a faceless tyrant, a Maghreb Big Brother, than of the detached, ineffectual bureaucrat he appears to be at every meeting.1993, Steven G. Kellman, The Plague: Fiction and Resistance, New York, N.Y.: Twayne Publishers, →ISBN, page 77

faceless meaning in Urdu

faceless in Urdu

انجان, بےنام

Examples of faceless in a sentence

  • How can he be sure his life won’t unravel in some faceless official’s hands?
  • Nearby was the tidier town of Tychy, a faceless Milton Keynes type of place without the roundabouts.
  • No, I didn't read the piece on China's faceless masses, I was, I was checking out the lingerie ads.

All 13 example sentences with faceless

Forms of faceless

comparativemore faceless
superlativemost faceless

Origin of faceless

From face + -less.

Words formed from faceless

Phrases with faceless

Questions about faceless

What does faceless mean?
Faceless means having no face.
What is faceless in Urdu?
Faceless in Urdu is انجان, بےنام. See Faceless meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is faceless?
Faceless is an adjective.

Words near faceless in the dictionary

  1. facehoofs
  2. facehooves
  3. faceism
  4. facekini
  5. facekinis
  6. faceless
  7. faceless bureaucrat
  8. faceless bureaucrats
  9. faceless man
  10. faceless men
  11. facelessly

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: faceless (page history and authors); faceless (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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