1 [usuallybeforenoun] having no name; whose name you do not know:
a nameless grave * thousands of nameless and faceless workers
2 whose name is kept secret
SYNANONYMOUS:
a nameless source in the government * a well-known public figure who shall remain nameless
3 [usuallybeforenoun] (literary) difficult or too unpleasant to describe:
nameless horrors / fears * a nameless longing
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for nameless is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is nameless a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, nameless is tagged as adjective.
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