NAMELESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nameless mean? 

• NAMELESS (adjective)
  The adjective NAMELESS has 1 sense:

1. being or having an unknown or unnamed source

  Familiarity information: NAMELESS used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NAMELESS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Being or having an unknown or unnamed source

Synonyms:

nameless; unidentified; unknown; unnamed

Context example:

an unnamed donor

Similar:

anon.; anonymous (having no known name or identity or known source)

Derivation:

namelessness (the state of being anonymous)

 Context examples 

What! you thought nobody could dance because a certain person that shall be nameless is gone!

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

It smote Miss Brewster likewise, a vague and nameless terror rushing into her eyes as she regarded Wolf Larsen.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Fear overcame me; I dared no advance, dreading a thousand nameless evils that made me tremble, although I was unable to define them.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

At any instant it might spring upon me from the shadows—this nameless and horrible monster.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

To have been described long ago to a recent acquaintance, by nameless people, is irresistible; and Anne was all curiosity.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Through all the centuries and over all those southern waters nameless men have fought in nameless places, their sole monuments a protected coast and an unravaged country-side.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Thus it was that in obedience to the law laid down by his mother, and in obedience to the law of that unknown and nameless thing, fear, he kept away from the mouth of the cave.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

It was, then, in a year, and even in a decade, that shall be nameless, that upon one Tuesday morning in autumn we found two visitors of European fame within the walls of our humble room in Baker Street.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“It is very true, upon my honour, but I see how it is; you are indifferent to everybody's admiration, except that of one gentleman, who shall be nameless. Nay, I cannot blame you”—speaking more seriously—“your feelings are easily understood.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

He wanted it because it was his nature, because he had been gripped tight by that nameless, incomprehensible pride of the trail and trace—that pride which holds dogs in the toil to the last gasp, which lures them to die joyfully in the harness, and breaks their hearts if they are cut out of the harness.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)