Anonymous
[ə'nɒnɪməs] or [ə'nɑnəməs]
Definition
(adj.) having no known name or identity or known source; 'anonymous authors'; 'anonymous donors'; 'an anonymous gift' .
(adj.) not known or lacking marked individuality; 'brown anonymous houses'; 'anonymous bureaucrats in the Civil Service' .
Typist: Shelley--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Nameless; of unknown name; also, of unknown or unavowed authorship; as, an anonymous benefactor; an anonymous pamphlet or letter.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Nameless, without the name of the author.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Nameless, unattested, authorless, unidentified, unauthenticated
ANT:Authenticated, attested, identified, authorized, verified, signed
Checker: Norris
Definition
adj. wanting a name: not having the name of the author as distinguished from pseudonymous when another than his real name has been given.—ns. An′onym a person whose name is not given: a pseudonym; Anonym′ity the quality or state of being anonymous.—adv. Anon′ymously.
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Examples
- It is as if you had thrown a large sheet over a mass of men and made them anonymous. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- When he cast off the Patriarch at night, it was only to take an anonymous craft in tow, and labour away afresh in other waters. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- But I could have made the money without this anonymous information. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The letter is an anonymous letter--a vile attempt to injure Sir Percival Glyde in my sister's estimation. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- By the way, he said, your clients in Cumberland have not heard anything more of the woman who wrote the anonymous letter, have they? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The body was identified the day after I had seen it by means of an anonymous letter addressed to his wife. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- In a sense which might explain her motive in writing the anonymous letter? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Anonymous letters--unfortunate woman--sad state of society. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- One of the paragraphs of the anonymous letter, I said, contains some sentences of minute personal description. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Upon which law-writer there was an inquest, and which law-writer was an anonymous character, his name being unknown. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The author gives the history of one in 1687; another horrible one, in 1692, is described by several anonymous authors. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- They watch you, misrepresent you, write letters about you (anonymous sometimes), and you are the torment and the occupation of their lives. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- As soon as Miss Fairlie had left the room he spared us all embarrassment on the subject of the anonymous letter, by adverting to it of his own accord. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
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