nameless
nameless adjective: not having a name.
Adjective
nameless (not comparable)
- 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
- 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.
- Victims of rug pulls are often left with little recourse against nameless thieves.2022 March 2, David Yaffe-Bellany, “Millions for Crypto Start-Ups, No Real Names Necessary”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 03 Mar 2022
- Synonyms:
- anonymous, deidentified, arcane, cryptic, enigmatic, ill-defined, inenubilable, mysterial, mysterioso, mysterious
- Unable to be described or expressed.
- a nameless unease
- a nameless fear
- Synonyms:
- indescribable, indefinable, undescribable, indicible, inexpressible, untold, ineffable, inenarrable, inutterable, termless
- 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
- 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 - Its upland-lawns, and cliffs with foliage hung,
Its wizard-stream, nor nameless, nor unsung:1890, Samuel Rogers, “An Epistle to a Friend”, in Poems by Samuel Rogers, London: George Routledge and Sons, page 74
- Synonyms:
- fameless, renownless, unsung, gloriless, inglorious, nonfamous, obscure, unfamous, unhonored, unglorified
- Nameless and fameless, but tinged with the sadness
Noun
the nameless
- Vulva.
- Hérison, m. The female pudendum; ‘the nameless’.1896, John Stephen Farmer, “Hérison”, in Vocabula Amatoria, page 156
- Synonyms:
- name-it-not, axe wound, badly packed kebab, bearded clam, beaver, beef curtains, burger, chocha, clam, cooch
nameless meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
nameless in Hindi
- having no name
- अनाम anām, अनामक anāmak
nameless in Urdu
- بےنام, بلااسم, گمنام
nameless in Bengali
- having no name
- নামহীন namohin, অনামা onama
nameless in Malayalam
- anonymous, unnamed, unidentified
- പേരില്ലാത്ത, പേരിട്ടിട്ടില്ലാത്ത, അറിയപ്പെടാത്ത, തിരിച്ചറിയപ്പെടാത്ത, അജ്ഞാതനാമാവായ, അനാമികം
- unutterable, unspeakable, inexpressible
- പറയാൻപാടില്ലാത്ത, പറയുവാൻവയ്യാത്ത, പറഞ്ഞു ഫലിപ്പിക്കാനാവാത്ത, ഉച്ചരിക്കാനാവാത്ത, അകഥനീയ, പറയാൻ പാടില്ലാത്ത
More languagesFewer languages
- nameless in Kannada
- ಹೆಸರಿಲ್ಲದ, ನಾಮರಹಿತ, ಅನಾಮಿಕ, ಅನಾಮಧೇಯ
- nameless in Assamese
- নিনাও ninaü
Examples of nameless in a sentence
- I had much more vivid horrors than Lovecraft's nameless ickinesses to write about now.
- I ride into this small town that will remain nameless to protect the small townies.
- As I stand at the edge of existence; nameless shores of infinity.
Synonyms of nameless
- unnamed
- anonymous
- deidentified
- arcane
- cryptic
- enigmatic
- ill-defined
- inenubilable
- mysterioso
- mysterious
30 more synonymsFewer synonyms
- mystic
- runish
- sibylline
- systerious
- uncertain
- undefined
- undetermined
- indescribable
- indefinable
- undescribable
- inexpressible
- untold
- ineffable
- inenarrable
- inutterable
- termless
- undefinable
- unnameable
- unspecifiable
- unspeakable
- unutterable
- illegitimate
- base
- baseborn
- base born
- bastardly
- extramarital
- misbegotten
- natural
- spurious
Forms of nameless
| alternative form (obsolete) | nameles |
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Origin of nameless
From Middle English nameles, equivalent to name + -less. Cognate with Dutch naamloos (“nameless”), German namenlos (“nameless”), Danish navnløs (“nameless”), Swedish namnlös (“nameless”), Icelandic nafnlaus (“nameless, anonymous”).
Words formed from nameless
Phrases with nameless
Questions about nameless
- What does nameless mean?
- Nameless means not having a name.
- What is nameless in Hindi?
- Nameless in Hindi is अनाम (anām), अनामक (anāmak). See Nameless meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is nameless?
- Nameless can be an adjective or a noun.
Words near nameless in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: nameless (page history and authors); nameless (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); nameless (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); nameless (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); নিনাও (Assamese) (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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