nameless

adj

1. (not-comparable)Not having a name.

   “Environmental DNA analysis suggests that the number of species of bacteria that remain nameless to date may well be on the order of many thousands.”

2. (not-comparable)Whose name is unknown; unidentified or obscured.

   “The culprits shall remain nameless here, as some names have been changed to protect the guilty; just don't let it happen again.”

   “Victims of rug pulls are often left with little recourse against nameless thieves.”

3. (not-comparable)Unable to be described or expressed.

   “a nameless unease”

   “a nameless fear”

   “Minute grew into minute, and still there was no sign of life, nor did the curtain move; but I felt the gaze of the unknown being sinking through and through me, and filling me with a nameless terror, till the perspiration stood in beads upon my brow.”

4. (dated, not-comparable)Illegitimate.

   “He said that he would cherish her until the grave, and that he would love her nameless son as though he were his own flesh.”

5. (not-comparable)Not well-known; not having made a name for oneself.

   “Nameless and fameless, but tinged with the sadness Rising from organs by seraph hands played.”

   “Its upland-lawns, and cliffs with foliage hung, Its wizard-stream, nor nameless, nor unsung:”

noun

1. (obsolete)Vulva.

   “Hérison, m. The female pudendum; ‘the nameless’.”