English Explanatory Dictionary

nameless

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Not having a name.
  2. Whose name is unknown; unidentified or obscured.
  3. Unable to be described or expressed.
  4. Illegitimate.
  5. Not well-known; not having made a name for oneself.
noun
  1. Vulva.

Pronunciation

en-us-nameless.ogg

Word forms

nameless nameles the nameless

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”).

Synonyms

unnamed anonymous deidentified arcane cryptic enigmatic ill-defined inenubilable mysterial mysterioso mysterious mystic runish sibylline systerious uncertain undefined undetermined indescribable indefinable undescribable indicible inexpressible untold ineffable inenarrable inutterable nameless termless undefinable unnameable unspecifiable unspeakable unutterable illegitimate base baseborn base born bastardly extramarital misbegotten natural spurious unwanted degenerate fameless renownless unsung gloriless inglorious nonfamous obscure unfamous unhonored unglorified ungloriful unglorious unnoticed unnoted unreputed

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

Armenian: անանուն Belarusian: безыме́нны Bengali: নামহীন Bengali: অনামা Bulgarian: бези́менен Chinese Mandarin: 無名 /无名 Czech: nepojmenovaný Czech: bezejmenný Danish: navnløs Dutch: naamloos Esperanto: nenomita Esperanto: sennoma Faroese: navnleysur Finnish: nimetön French: sans nom French: innomé Georgian: უსახელო German: namenlos Greek: χωρίς όνομα Ancient Greek: ἀνώνυμος Hebrew: לְלֹא שֵׁם Hebrew: בְּעִלּוּם שֵׁם Hebrew: אָנוֹנִימִי Hungarian: névtelen Icelandic: nafnlaus Icelandic: óþekktur Italian: innominato Japanese: 名無し Japanese: 無名の Kazakh: атсыз Kazakh: атаусыз Central Kurdish: بێناو Laki: بێنام Northern Kurdish: bênav Southern Kurdish: بێناو Macedonian: безимен Manx: neuennymagh Norwegian Bokmål: navnløs Norwegian Nynorsk: namnlaus Old East Slavic: безименьнꙑи Polish: bezimienny Portuguese: sem nome Russian: безымя́нный Serbo-Croatian: неименован Serbo-Croatian: бѐзимен Serbo-Croatian: neimenovan Serbo-Croatian: bèzimen Slovak: bezmenný Slovene: brezimen Spanish: innominado Spanish: sin nombre Swedish: namnlös Turkish: adsız Turkish: isimsiz
This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on N Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary