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nameless

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nameless /ˈneɪmlɪs /
▸ adjective
1 having no name or no known name:
some pictures were taken by a nameless photographer
the clinic was situated in a little nameless square off James Street.
▪ deliberately not identified; anonymous:
the director of an organization which shall remain nameless.
▪ archaic (of a child) illegitimate:
his grandfather had been a nameless, parentless child.
2 (especially of an emotion) not easy to describe; indefinable:
a nameless yearning for transcendence.
▪ too horrific to be described:
the myths talk about nameless horrors infesting our universe.
– DERIVATIVES
namelessly /ˈneɪmlɪsli / adverb
namelessness /ˈneɪmləsnəs / noun