nameless
adjectivenounattested in dialogue
- United States
Not having a name.
adjective
- 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.
- 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.
Victims of rug pulls are often left with little recourse against nameless thieves.
- 3
Unable to be described or expressed.
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.
- 4
datedIllegitimate.
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.
- 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.
Its upland-lawns, and cliffs with foliage hung, Its wizard-stream, nor nameless, nor unsung:
Etymology
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”).
noun
- 1
obsoleteVulva.
Hérison, m. The female pudendum; ‘the nameless’.