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nameless
nameless /ˈneɪmləs/ 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