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Definition of nameless in English: namelessadjective ˈneɪmləsˈneɪmləs 1Having no name or no known name. 没有名字的;不知其名的 some pictures were taken by a nameless photographer the clinic was situated in a little nameless square off James Street Example sentencesExamples - In the early 19th century, the Brandberg served as a nameless landmark for vessels plying the Namibian coast, the name Dourissa only made appearance on maps in 1878.
- But we have not even put their names in the programme because we are representing nameless men.
- I was about the age of the narrator of Lithium, who is mostly nameless in the book (except for an instant when she appropriates the name of her grandmother, Rose).
- These range from lack of attention and service at a local level to having to deal with nameless people in these large corporations.
- They're all nameless, faceless, jobless, unidentified people.
- You start a religion by linking to obscure and nameless people.
- Desperate for a title, a mutual friend suggested the name to an unenthusiastic nameless band.
- She delivered the key sentence: ‘It's for every nameless, faceless woman of colour, who now has a chance because this door tonight has been opened.’
- In the dream I had Friday night, I stopped short when I spotted her just as she stepped up to some sort of customer service window in some nameless, faceless department store.
- His name is a lie, and with this lie the reality of his world vanishes… Reality has become a confusion of thingless names and nameless things for him.
- To be a member of the working poor is to be an anonymous donor, a nameless benefactor to everyone else.
- All I know now is that my name is Assassin, my parents are nameless, and so is their killer.
- As for the dolls that didn't come with names, well, some remain nameless to this day.
- Players are cast as nameless, faceless drivers looking to establish a name in the underground realm of street racing.
- The costume also reflects how those who commit horrific acts of destruction are nameless, faceless people.
- He was nobody, a nameless man; nobody could pronounce his name in this country, and they had called him by the color of blood in lieu of his identity.
- To be granted a name is to be seen as a person with an identity; in contrast, being nameless is being not fully human.
- How can this unknown and nameless hero have defeated these legendary warriors?
- He died unidentified and unmourned - a nameless individual lost to oblivion.
- We identified the man as some nameless street scavenger who had a few run-ins with local law enforcement.
- Before her nameless companion could reveal his name, they were once again interrupted.
- The kestrel, a female aged about two, is deliberately nameless so that it does not get tame.
- Surely the Swiss theologian Emil Brunner was right when he said that the truly mysterious God is not the nameless One, but the One who has a name and makes it known.
Synonyms unknown, unfamiliar, new, little known, undiscovered, obscure, unsung, unheralded, groundbreaking - 1.1 Deliberately not identified; anonymous.
隐名的;匿名的 the director of an organization which shall remain nameless 一个要求不公布名称的志愿组织的主管。 Example sentencesExamples - On Friday, a certain somebody, who shall remain nameless, borrowed my digital camera and took a picture which, in polite circles, would be described as ‘scandalous’.
- One particular wine that comes to mind, which shall remain nameless (for the sake of ambiguity, I will refer to it as Mr. Yellow), has become an overnight sales sensation.
- Speaking of wetting myself, I then opened up my email to discover this from a friend who shall remain nameless.
- Henry and I are hoping to chair a roundtable on blogging; some heavy-hitters in the blogosphere who shall remain nameless for the moment have already committed.
- So much so, in fact, that one of my teachers, who shall remain nameless to protect her identity, pulled me aside after class and told me she's having a dinner party on Saturday.
- Another patient, who wished to remain nameless, fears for his future after the unit closes its doors.
- ‘I was surprised to see that at least two of the forms were addressed to people who moved out from here nearly three years ago,’ the voter, who wishes to remain nameless, revealed.
- That I am condemned to live and die in nameless obscurity?
- Despite being in his late 50's, my sibling (who will remain nameless in case some one dobs him in) has never voted for any kind of Government, local, state or federal.
- Their purported source, a senior U.S. government official, who for some unknown reason wants to remain nameless, is not sure whether his story is true.
- Until recently, its investigators have been mostly nameless, the millions of words issuing from its government-issue red-brick offices mostly anonymous.
- ‘I recommend the diet for anyone who is serious about weight loss,’ gushes a Hollywood stuntwoman who asked to remain nameless.
- I very much appreciate the support and friendship of the landowners of 3rd Unnamed Cave, who must remain nameless.
Synonyms unnamed, unidentified, anonymous, incognito, unspecified, unacknowledged, uncredited unknown, unheard of, unsung, uncelebrated, inglorious, obscure untitled, undesignated, unlabelled, untagged rare innominate - 1.2archaic (of a child) illegitimate.
〈古〉(孩子)无合法名义的;私生的 his grandfather had been a nameless, parentless child Example sentencesExamples - The memories are rosy at first, if a bit disconnected and tangential, and each tale includes memories told to the nameless child by his foster father, Mr Finney.
Synonyms born out of wedlock, born of unmarried parents
2(especially of an emotion) not easy to describe; indefinable. (尤指情感)不可名状的;难以表达的 a nameless yearning for transcendence 对超凡难以形容的渴望。 Example sentencesExamples - Her bending body evoked wordless memories of love and life, her supple arms gave meaning to nameless emotions, and her springing legs bore testament to perfection.
- In 1984, when I was taking care of the riot victims, I saw the same nameless fear and helpless misery.
- It was some nameless sorrow, sharp and painful.
- ‘That is untrue,’ Niles shot back, though a terrible, nameless fear gripped his heart.
- Obeying a nameless impulse to look up, I detected the hair-thin outline of a square trapdoor in the high ceiling.
- After all, routine itself is a way of kind of keeping certain things at bay, it's a refuge from nameless fears, and interestingly, Auden understood that well and saw it in September 1939.
- I have stood there, waiting for them, and they never arrive, which supports both my theory and my nameless fear.
- A nameless feeling surges when I see other people's families come.
- They consider the monsoon a season of separation from the loved one, of nostalgia and nameless longing.
- His nameless sorrows ensure that he stands aloof, his distance from the other characters endowing him with a wisdom absent in the quarrelsome officers and journalists.
- Their eyes never broke away from their gaze, each mirroring those nameless emotions coursing through them.
- Everyone felt a nameless fear, mingled with shame.
- And then it blossomed in me… a nameless feeling so invigorating that one could not possibly wish for it to end.
- It's a sort of nameless anguish, or dread, at the open possibilities of the future.
- None the less, I do not feel any of the expected ‘closure,’ and in fact I'm becoming increasingly depressed and am obsessed with nameless fears.
- I have found ways to minimize the damage and disruption that my periods of gloom and nameless grief can cause.
- In the middle of the night she woke, chilled, full of nameless apprehension.
- I couldn't explain the momentary stillness inside of me, or the rush of nameless emotions that followed.
- Hw slowly becomes conscious of a nameless fear.
- As I take your order I am filled with a nameless rage that consumes my every thought.
Synonyms unspeakable, unutterable, inexpressible, unmentionable, indescribable, abominable, horrible, dreadful, appalling, shocking, awful, terrible, frightful indefinable, vague, obscure, unspecified, unspecifiable - 2.1 Too horrific to be described.
可恶得无法描述的;恐怖得无法描述的 the myths talk about nameless horrors infesting our universe 这些神话讲述的是充斥于宇宙间的无法名状的恐怖。 Example sentencesExamples - Some nameless horror from the primordial depths.
- It was hard to remember what happened when she woke up, but she remembered waking up more than once with a nameless terror on the fringes of her consciousness.
- But in the next instant, the hair rises glacially on the back of his neck, his spine is seized with iron, his eyes open on emptiness, a nameless terror.
- Everything had a cult dedicated to it, from ancient mummies to nameless elder horrors.
Derivativesadverb ˈneɪmləsliˈneɪmləsli The cities have great swathes of villa land suburbia, quiet lanes often tree lined stretching namelessly on and on until they melt into unfinished desert building sites. Example sentencesExamples - But while the ability to travel namelessly may be a prerogative we can sacrifice, what about the right to speak anonymously?
- I was one of those kids namelessly referred to as the ‘problem out there’.
- The developers work namelessly to produce a piece of software that will make their employers wealthy.
- Instead of travelling namelessly in bustling streets to important destinations, we travel on the same old school bus we did in kinder.
noun ˈneɪmləsnəsˈneɪmləsnəs The namelessness of the lover creates heightened particularity, at the same time giving his character the edge of the purely subjective. Example sentencesExamples - But there is a strange namelessness about everything that helps the film avoid conventionality or specificity.
- Though she is a lauded professional, she can identify with the namelessness that shrouds historical women figures like Sally Hemings.
- The husband's namelessness foreshadows the decline in his authority and his reduced function in the story.
- As they smile into the camera, they seem to be cheerfully willing their own namelessness, and become strange specters of themselves.
Definition of nameless in US English: namelessadjectiveˈneɪmləsˈnāmləs 1Having no name or no known name. 没有名字的;不知其名的 Example sentencesExamples - He died unidentified and unmourned - a nameless individual lost to oblivion.
- Surely the Swiss theologian Emil Brunner was right when he said that the truly mysterious God is not the nameless One, but the One who has a name and makes it known.
- In the dream I had Friday night, I stopped short when I spotted her just as she stepped up to some sort of customer service window in some nameless, faceless department store.
- Players are cast as nameless, faceless drivers looking to establish a name in the underground realm of street racing.
- He was nobody, a nameless man; nobody could pronounce his name in this country, and they had called him by the color of blood in lieu of his identity.
- His name is a lie, and with this lie the reality of his world vanishes… Reality has become a confusion of thingless names and nameless things for him.
- The kestrel, a female aged about two, is deliberately nameless so that it does not get tame.
- You start a religion by linking to obscure and nameless people.
- These range from lack of attention and service at a local level to having to deal with nameless people in these large corporations.
- To be a member of the working poor is to be an anonymous donor, a nameless benefactor to everyone else.
- But we have not even put their names in the programme because we are representing nameless men.
- Desperate for a title, a mutual friend suggested the name to an unenthusiastic nameless band.
- As for the dolls that didn't come with names, well, some remain nameless to this day.
- All I know now is that my name is Assassin, my parents are nameless, and so is their killer.
- Before her nameless companion could reveal his name, they were once again interrupted.
- To be granted a name is to be seen as a person with an identity; in contrast, being nameless is being not fully human.
- The costume also reflects how those who commit horrific acts of destruction are nameless, faceless people.
- We identified the man as some nameless street scavenger who had a few run-ins with local law enforcement.
- How can this unknown and nameless hero have defeated these legendary warriors?
- They're all nameless, faceless, jobless, unidentified people.
- I was about the age of the narrator of Lithium, who is mostly nameless in the book (except for an instant when she appropriates the name of her grandmother, Rose).
- She delivered the key sentence: ‘It's for every nameless, faceless woman of colour, who now has a chance because this door tonight has been opened.’
- In the early 19th century, the Brandberg served as a nameless landmark for vessels plying the Namibian coast, the name Dourissa only made appearance on maps in 1878.
Synonyms unknown, unfamiliar, new, little known, undiscovered, obscure, unsung, unheralded, groundbreaking - 1.1 Deliberately not identified; anonymous.
隐名的;匿名的 the director of a voluntary organization which shall remain nameless 一个要求不公布名称的志愿组织的主管。 Example sentencesExamples - One particular wine that comes to mind, which shall remain nameless (for the sake of ambiguity, I will refer to it as Mr. Yellow), has become an overnight sales sensation.
- ‘I recommend the diet for anyone who is serious about weight loss,’ gushes a Hollywood stuntwoman who asked to remain nameless.
- Despite being in his late 50's, my sibling (who will remain nameless in case some one dobs him in) has never voted for any kind of Government, local, state or federal.
- Another patient, who wished to remain nameless, fears for his future after the unit closes its doors.
- Until recently, its investigators have been mostly nameless, the millions of words issuing from its government-issue red-brick offices mostly anonymous.
- So much so, in fact, that one of my teachers, who shall remain nameless to protect her identity, pulled me aside after class and told me she's having a dinner party on Saturday.
- ‘I was surprised to see that at least two of the forms were addressed to people who moved out from here nearly three years ago,’ the voter, who wishes to remain nameless, revealed.
- Speaking of wetting myself, I then opened up my email to discover this from a friend who shall remain nameless.
- Henry and I are hoping to chair a roundtable on blogging; some heavy-hitters in the blogosphere who shall remain nameless for the moment have already committed.
- Their purported source, a senior U.S. government official, who for some unknown reason wants to remain nameless, is not sure whether his story is true.
- I very much appreciate the support and friendship of the landowners of 3rd Unnamed Cave, who must remain nameless.
- That I am condemned to live and die in nameless obscurity?
- On Friday, a certain somebody, who shall remain nameless, borrowed my digital camera and took a picture which, in polite circles, would be described as ‘scandalous’.
Synonyms unnamed, unidentified, anonymous, incognito, unspecified, unacknowledged, uncredited - 1.2archaic (of a child) illegitimate.
〈古〉(孩子)无合法名义的;私生的 Example sentencesExamples - The memories are rosy at first, if a bit disconnected and tangential, and each tale includes memories told to the nameless child by his foster father, Mr Finney.
Synonyms born out of wedlock, born of unmarried parents
2(especially of an emotion) not easy to describe; indefinable. (尤指情感)不可名状的;难以表达的 a nameless yearning for transcendence 对超凡难以形容的渴望。 Example sentencesExamples - And then it blossomed in me… a nameless feeling so invigorating that one could not possibly wish for it to end.
- His nameless sorrows ensure that he stands aloof, his distance from the other characters endowing him with a wisdom absent in the quarrelsome officers and journalists.
- Everyone felt a nameless fear, mingled with shame.
- Her bending body evoked wordless memories of love and life, her supple arms gave meaning to nameless emotions, and her springing legs bore testament to perfection.
- I have found ways to minimize the damage and disruption that my periods of gloom and nameless grief can cause.
- A nameless feeling surges when I see other people's families come.
- In the middle of the night she woke, chilled, full of nameless apprehension.
- In 1984, when I was taking care of the riot victims, I saw the same nameless fear and helpless misery.
- I couldn't explain the momentary stillness inside of me, or the rush of nameless emotions that followed.
- It was some nameless sorrow, sharp and painful.
- ‘That is untrue,’ Niles shot back, though a terrible, nameless fear gripped his heart.
- Obeying a nameless impulse to look up, I detected the hair-thin outline of a square trapdoor in the high ceiling.
- None the less, I do not feel any of the expected ‘closure,’ and in fact I'm becoming increasingly depressed and am obsessed with nameless fears.
- I have stood there, waiting for them, and they never arrive, which supports both my theory and my nameless fear.
- It's a sort of nameless anguish, or dread, at the open possibilities of the future.
- They consider the monsoon a season of separation from the loved one, of nostalgia and nameless longing.
- Their eyes never broke away from their gaze, each mirroring those nameless emotions coursing through them.
- Hw slowly becomes conscious of a nameless fear.
- As I take your order I am filled with a nameless rage that consumes my every thought.
- After all, routine itself is a way of kind of keeping certain things at bay, it's a refuge from nameless fears, and interestingly, Auden understood that well and saw it in September 1939.
Synonyms unspeakable, unutterable, inexpressible, unmentionable, indescribable, abominable, horrible, dreadful, appalling, shocking, awful, terrible, frightful - 2.1 Too loathsome or horrific to be described.
可恶得无法描述的;恐怖得无法描述的 the myths talk about nameless horrors infesting our universe 这些神话讲述的是充斥于宇宙间的无法名状的恐怖。 Example sentencesExamples - But in the next instant, the hair rises glacially on the back of his neck, his spine is seized with iron, his eyes open on emptiness, a nameless terror.
- Everything had a cult dedicated to it, from ancient mummies to nameless elder horrors.
- It was hard to remember what happened when she woke up, but she remembered waking up more than once with a nameless terror on the fringes of her consciousness.
- Some nameless horror from the primordial depths.
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