Meaning

5 senses
  1. (not comparable)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.

    namenlos

    безымя́нныйbezymjánnyj

    безіме́ннийbeziménnyj

    being or having an unknown or unnamed source

  2. (not comparable)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.

  3. (not comparable)Unable to be described or expressed.

    a nameless unease

    a nameless fear

  4. (dated, not comparable)Illegitimate.

  5. (not comparable)Not well-known; not having made a name for oneself.

Examples

2 sentences
  1. This poem was written by a nameless poet.

    ruЭто стихотворение было написано неизвестным поэтом.

    deDieses Gedicht wurde von einem unbekannten Dichter geschrieben.

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  2. These words were spoken by someone who shall be nameless.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
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Origin

From Middle English nameles, equivalent to name + -less. Cognate with Dutch naamloos (“nam

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”).

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