Nameless
['neɪmlɪs] or ['nemləs]
Definition
(adj.) being or having an unknown or unnamed source; 'a poem by an unknown author'; 'corporations responsible to nameless owners'; 'an unnamed donor' .
Editor: Pierre--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Without a name; not having been given a name; as, a nameless star.
(a.) Undistinguished; not noted or famous.
(a.) Not known or mentioned by name; anonymous; as, a nameless writer.
(a.) Unnamable; indescribable; inexpressible.
Editor: Verna
Examples
- The nameless charm of last night had left his manner: he was no longer the same man: or, at any rate, the same heart did not beat in his breast. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Fear overcame me; I dared not advance, dreading a thousand nameless evils that made me tremble, although I was unable to define them. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- The historian says: Ruffians, hired by Fulbert, fell upon Abelard by night, and inflicted upon him a terrible and nameless mutilation. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Let me sleep, nameless. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Dying at the hands of nameless black men in the gardens of the cruel therns. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- I dreamed it would be nameless bliss, As I loved, loved to be; And to this object did I press As blind as eagerly. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Him that shall be nameless is liable to be talked over. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- What was the nameless shadow which again in that one instant had passed? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Not the person that shall be nameless. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The Temple sendeth not forth her champions against nameless men. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The housekeeper tried to describe him, but failed to distinguish the nameless visitor by any personal peculiarity which her master could recognise. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Yet there was a nameless air of preparation in the room, as if it were strung up for an occasion. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Here is an immense fortune drops from the clouds upon a person that shall be nameless. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- My love has sworn, with sealing kiss, With me to live--to die; I have at last my nameless bliss. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- But think how those stars steady me in the cause of the right against some that shall be nameless. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- She certainly said it (as I heard last summer) to the unfortunate woman who married our sweet-tempered, nameless gentleman lately deceased. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- And the people who come after us will look and wonder at the nameless grave. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- As on the Secretary's face there was a nameless cloud, so on his manner there was a shadow equally indefinable. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Tell me thy name, or work thy pleasure on me--it shall never be said that Maurice de Bracy was prisoner to a nameless churl. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
Editor: Verna