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   Name·less

   /ˈnāmləs/

   

   adjective

   • 1. having no name or no known name: "some pictures were taken by a nameless photographer"
   • ▪ deliberately not identified; anonymous: "the director of a voluntary organization which shall remain nameless" Similar unnamedunidentifiedanonymousincognitounspecifiedunacknowledgeduncreditedunknownunheard ofunsunguncelebratedingloriousobscureuntitledundesignatedunlabeleduntaggedrare:innominateOpposite well knownfamous
   • ▪ (of a child) illegitimate: archaic "his grandfather had been a nameless, parentless child"
   • 2. (especially of an emotion) not easy to describe; indefinable: "a nameless yearning for transcendence" Similar unspeakableunutterableinexpressibleunmentionableindescribableabominablehorribledreadfulappallingshockingawfulterriblefrightfulindefinablevagueobscureunspecifiedunspecifiableOpposite specific
   • ▪ too loathsome or horrific to be described: "the myths talk about nameless horrors infesting our universe"

   Derivatives

   • 1. namelessly adverb
   • 2. namelessness noun

   Scrabble Points: 10

   • N

     1

   • A

     1

   • M

     3

   • E

     1

   • L

     1

   • E

     1

   • S

     1

   • S

     1

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