Nameless

Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective

Meaning

Not having a name..

Definitions by Sense

1. Not having a name.
2. Whose name is unknown; unidentified or obscured.
3. Unable to be described or expressed.
4. (dated, of a child) Illegitimate.
5. Not well-known; not having made a name for oneself.
6. (obsolete) Vulva.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

a nameless unease

a nameless fear

Minute grew into minute, and still there was no sign of life, nor did the curtain move; but I felt the gaze of the unknown being sinking through and through me, and filling me with a nameless terror, till the perspiration stood in beads upon my brow.

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.

Nameless and fameless, but tinged with the sadness Rising from organs by seraph hands played.

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• nameles
• the nameless

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