NAMELESS


Meaning of NAMELESS in English

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

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.      Longman - Словарь современного английского языка.