Standard Lemma guide

nameless

adj · noun · 7 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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1

adj

Meaning 1

Not having a name.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

Examples

  • 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.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: unnamed

Antonyms: none provided

2

adj

Meaning 2

Whose name is unknown; unidentified or obscured.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

Examples

  • The culprits shall remain nameless here, as some names have been changed to protect the guilty; just don't let it happen again.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: anonymous, deidentified, arcane, cryptic, enigmatic, ill-defined, inenubilable, mysterial, mysterioso, mysterious, mystic, runish, sibylline, systerious, uncertain, undefined, undetermined

Antonyms: none provided

3

adj

Meaning 3

Unable to be described or expressed.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

Examples

  • a nameless unease
  • a nameless fear

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: indescribable, indefinable, undescribable, indicible, inexpressible, untold, ineffable, inenarrable, inutterable, nameless, termless, undefinable, unnameable, unspecifiable, unspeakable, unutterable

Antonyms: none provided

4

adj

Meaning 4

Illegitimate.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: dated, not-comparable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: illegitimate, base, baseborn, base born, bastardly, extramarital, misbegotten, nameless, natural, spurious, unwanted, degenerate

Antonyms: none provided

5

adj

Meaning 5

Not well-known; not having made a name for oneself.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: fameless, renownless, unsung, gloriless, inglorious, nameless, nonfamous, obscure, unfamous, unhonored, unglorified, ungloriful, unglorious, unnoticed, unnoted, unreputed, unrenowned

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

Vulva.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: name-it-not, axe wound, badly packed kebab, bearded clam, beaver, beef curtains, burger, chocha, clam, cooch, coochie, coochy, cookie, coot, cooter, crack, cunny, cunt, fanny, foo-foo, front bottom, fur burger, fur pie, gash, gee, girl penis, hair pie, ham sandwich, honey hole, it, kebab, kitty, ladybits, minge, minnie, moocha, mooshoo, mott, muff, muffin, na-na, nonny, nooky, noonie, old hat, pee flap, pee-pee, pink, poontang, prat, pudendum muliebre, punani, pussy, quaint, quiff, quim, rat, roast beef, scut, slit, slot, snatch, treasures, tuppence, twat, twinkle, vadge, vagina, vajay, va-jay-jay, vulva, wee-wee, yoni

Antonyms: none provided

7

adjective satellite

Meaning 7

being or having an unknown or unnamed source

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • a poem by an unknown author
  • corporations responsible to nameless owners
  • an unnamed donor

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: unidentified, unknown, unnamed

Antonyms: none provided

History

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”).

Across languages

Translations

57 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Armenian: անանուն (ananun) — having no name
  • Belarusian: безыме́нны (bjezymjénny) — having no name
  • Bengali: নামহীন (namohin) — having no name
  • Bengali: অনামা (onama) — having no name
  • Bulgarian: бези́менен (bezímenen) — having no name
  • Chinese Mandarin: 無名 /无名 (wúmíng) — having no name
  • Czech: nepojmenovaný — having no name
  • Czech: bezejmenný — having no name
  • Danish: navnløs — having no name
  • Dutch: naamloos — having no name
  • Esperanto: nenomita — having no name
  • Esperanto: sennoma — having no name
  • Faroese: navnleysur — having no name
  • Finnish: nimetön — having no name
  • French: sans nom — having no name
  • French: innomé — having no name
  • Georgian: უსახელო (usaxelo) — having no name
  • German: namenlos — having no name
  • Greek: χωρίς όνομα (chorís ónoma) — having no name
  • Ancient Greek: ἀνώνυμος (anṓnumos) — having no name
  • Hebrew: לְלֹא שֵׁם (leló shem) — having no name
  • Hebrew: בְּעִלּוּם שֵׁם (be-ilúm shem) — having no name
  • Hebrew: אָנוֹנִימִי — having no name
  • Hindi: अनाम (anām) — having no name
  • Hindi: अनामक (anāmak) — having no name
  • Hungarian: névtelen — having no name
  • Icelandic: nafnlaus — having no name
  • Icelandic: óþekktur — having no name
  • Italian: innominato — having no name
  • Japanese: 名無し (nanashi) — having no name
  • Japanese: 無名の (mumei no) — having no name
  • Kazakh: атсыз (atsyz) — having no name
  • Kazakh: атаусыз (atausyz) — having no name
  • Central Kurdish: بێناو (bênaw) — having no name
  • Laki: بێنام (bênam) — having no name
  • Northern Kurdish: bênav — having no name
  • Southern Kurdish: بێناو (bênaw) — having no name
  • Macedonian: безимен (bezimen) — having no name
  • Manx: neuennymagh — having no name
  • Norwegian Bokmål: navnløs — having no name
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: namnlaus — having no name
  • Old East Slavic: безименьнꙑи (bezimenĭnyi) — having no name
  • Polish: bezimienny — having no name
  • Portuguese: sem nome — having no name
  • Russian: безымя́нный (bezymjánnyj) — having no name
  • Serbo-Croatian: неименован — having no name
  • Serbo-Croatian: бѐзимен — having no name
  • Serbo-Croatian: neimenovan — having no name
  • Serbo-Croatian: bèzimen — having no name
  • Slovak: bezmenný — having no name
  • Slovene: brezimen — having no name
  • Spanish: innominado — having no name
  • Spanish: sin nombre — having no name
  • Swedish: namnlös — having no name
  • Turkish: adsız — having no name
  • Turkish: isimsiz — having no name
  • Ukrainian: безіме́нний (beziménnyj) — having no name