nameless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
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”).
Base: name
Affixes: -less
Inflected forms:
form: nameles
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Not having a name.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: 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.
gloss: Whose name is unknown; unidentified or obscured.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: 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.
gloss: Unable to be described or expressed.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: 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.
gloss: Illegitimate.
pos: adj
tags: dated
not-comparable
examples: 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.
gloss: Not well-known; not having made a name for oneself.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: 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:
Related words: Christian-nameless
first-nameless
given-nameless
innominate
last-nameless
middle-nameless
no-name
Derived words: nameless bee disease
nameless finger
namelessly
namelessness
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: անանուն
roman: ananun
lang: Belarusian
word: безыме́нны
roman: bjezymjénny
lang: Bengali
word: নামহীন
roman: namohin
lang: Bengali
word: অনামা
roman: onama
lang: Bulgarian
word: бези́менен
roman: bezímenen
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 無名 /无名
roman: wúmíng
lang: Czech
word: nepojmenovaný
lang: Czech
word: bezejmenný
lang: Danish
word: navnløs
lang: Dutch
word: naamloos
lang: Esperanto
word: nenomita
lang: Esperanto
word: sennoma
lang: Faroese
word: navnleysur
lang: Finnish
word: nimetön
lang: French
word: sans nom
lang: French
word: innomé
lang: Georgian
word: უსახელო
roman: usaxelo
lang: German
word: namenlos
lang: Greek
word: χωρίς όνομα
roman: chorís ónoma
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἀνώνυμος
roman: anṓnumos
lang: Hebrew
word: לְלֹא שֵׁם
roman: leló shem
lang: Hebrew
word: בְּעִלּוּם שֵׁם
roman: be-ilúm shem
lang: Hebrew
word: אָנוֹנִימִי
lang: Hindi
word: अनाम
roman: anām
lang: Hindi
word: अनामक
roman: anāmak
lang: Hungarian
word: névtelen
lang: Icelandic
word: nafnlaus
lang: Icelandic
word: óþekktur
lang: Italian
word: innominato
lang: Japanese
word: 名無し
roman: nanashi
lang: Japanese
word: 無名の
roman: mumei no
lang: Kazakh
word: атсыз
roman: atsyz
lang: Kazakh
word: атаусыз
roman: atausyz
lang: Central Kurdish
word: بێناو
roman: bênaw
lang: Laki
word: بێنام
roman: bênam
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: bênav
lang: Southern Kurdish
word: بێناو
roman: bênaw
lang: Macedonian
word: безимен
roman: bezimen
lang: Manx
word: neuennymagh
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: navnløs
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: namnlaus
lang: Old East Slavic
word: безименьнꙑи
roman: bezimenĭnyi
lang: Polish
word: bezimienny
lang: Portuguese
word: sem nome
lang: Russian
word: безымя́нный
roman: bezymjánnyj
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: неименован
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: бѐзимен
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: neimenovan
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: bèzimen
lang: Slovak
word: bezmenný
lang: Slovene
word: brezimen
lang: Spanish
word: innominado
lang: Spanish
word: sin nombre
lang: Swedish
word: namnlös
lang: Turkish
word: adsız
lang: Turkish
word: isimsiz
lang: Ukrainian
word: безіме́нний
roman: beziménnyj