nameless Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite being or having an unknown or unnamed source
    unknown; unnamed; unidentified.
    • a poem by an unknown author
    • corporations responsible to nameless owners
    • an unnamed donor

WordNet

Name"less adjective
Definitions
  1. Without a name; not having been given a name; as, a nameless star. Waller.
  2. Undistinguished; not noted or famous.
    A nameless dwelling and an unknown name. Harte.
  3. Not known or mentioned by name; anonymous; as, a nameless writer."Nameless pens." Atterbury.
  4. Unnamable; indescribable; inexpressible.
    But what it is, that is not yet known; what I can not name; t is nameless woe,I wot. Shak.
    I have a nameless horror of the man. Hawthorne.

Webster 1913