name ‧ less /ˈneɪmləs/ BrE AmE adjective
[ Word Family: verb : ↑ name , ↑ rename ; adjective : named ≠ ↑ unnamed , ↑ nameless ; noun : ↑ name ; adverb : ↑ namely ]
1 . who shall remain nameless spoken used when you want to say that someone has done something wrong but without mentioning their name, especially to criticize them in a friendly way:
A certain person, who shall remain nameless, forgot to lock the front door.
2 . [only before noun] a nameless person is someone whose name is not known:
the work of some nameless 13th-century writer
3 . [only before noun] a nameless thing does not have a name:
He lay still in his nameless grave.
4 . [only before noun] literary nameless emotions are very strong and difficult to describe in words:
He managed to calm her nameless fears.
5 . [only before noun] literary too terrible to name or describe:
nameless horrors