nameles

Adjective

nameless (not comparable)

1. 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.

   Synonyms:

   unnamed

2. Whose name is unknown; unidentified or obscured.
   • The culprits shall remain nameless here, as some names have been changed to protect the guilty; just don't let it happen again.

   Synonyms:

   anonymous, deidentified, arcane, cryptic, enigmatic, ill-defined, inenubilable, mysterial, mysterioso, mysterious

3. Unable to be described or expressed.
   • a nameless unease

   Synonyms:

   indescribable, indefinable, undescribable, indicible, inexpressible, untold, ineffable, inenarrable, inutterable, termless

4. (dated) 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

   Synonyms:

   illegitimate, base, baseborn, base born, bastardly, extramarital, misbegotten, natural, spurious, unwanted

5. 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

   Synonyms:

   fameless, renownless, unsung, gloriless, inglorious, nonfamous, obscure, unfamous, unhonored, unglorified

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