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English
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”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
nameless (not comparable)
- Not having a name.
- Synonym: unnamed
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.
- Whose name is unknown; unidentified or obscured.
- Synonyms: anonymous, deidentified
The culprits shall remain nameless here, as some names have been changed to protect the guilty; just don't let it happen again.
- Unable to be described or expressed.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:indescribable
a nameless unease
a nameless fear
1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, “The Plain of Kôr”, in She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC, page 126: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.
- (dated, of a child) Illegitimate.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:illegitimate
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: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.
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Translations
having no name
- Armenian: անանուն (hy) (ananun)
- Belarusian: безыме́нны (bjezymjénny)
- Bengali: নামহীন (bn) (namohin), অনামা (bn) (onama)
- Bulgarian: бези́менен (bg) (bezímenen)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 無名／无名 (zh) (wúmíng)
- Czech: nepojmenovaný, bezejmenný (cs)
- Danish: navnløs
- Dutch: naamloos (nl)
- Faroese: navnleysur
- Finnish: nimetön (fi)
- French: sans nom (fr), innomé (fr)
- Georgian: უსახელო (usaxelo)
- German: namenlos (de)
- Greek: χωρίς όνομα (chorís ónoma)
- Ancient: ἀνώνυμος (anṓnumos)
- Hebrew: לְלֹא שֵׁם (leló shem), בְּעִלּוּם שֵׁם (be-ilúm shem), אָנוֹנִימִי
- Hungarian: névtelen (hu)
- Icelandic: nafnlaus, óþekktur (is)
- Italian: innominato (it)
- Japanese: 名無し (ななし, nanashi), 無名の (ja) (むめいの, mumei no)
- Kazakh: атсыз (atsyz), атаусыз (atausyz)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: بێناو (bênaw)
- Laki: بێنام (bênam)
- Northern Kurdish: bênav (ku)
- Southern Kurdish: بێناو (bênaw)
- Macedonian: безимен (bezimen)
- Manx: neuennymagh
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: navnløs
- Nynorsk: namnlaus
- Old East Slavic: безименьнꙑи (bezimenĭnyi)
- Polish: bezimienny (pl)
- Portuguese: sem nome
- Russian: безымя́нный (ru) (bezymjánnyj)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: неименован, бѐзимен
- Roman: neimenovan (sh), bèzimen (sh)
- Slovak: bezmenný
- Slovene: brezimen
- Spanish: innominado, sin nombre
- Swedish: namnlös (sv)
- Turkish: adsız (tr), isimsiz (tr)
- Ukrainian: безіме́нний (uk) (beziménnyj)
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Noun
the nameless
- (obsolete) Vulva.
- Synonyms: name-it-not; see also Thesaurus:vulva
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