nameless

1. 1.

   being or having an unknown or unnamed source

   “a poem by an unknown author”

   “corporations responsible to nameless owners”

   “an unnamed donor”

   Synonymsunidentifiedunknownunnamed

   Similaranonymous

Other forms of nameless

comparative

namelesser·

superlative

namelessest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about nameless

What does nameless mean?

nameless means "being or having an unknown or unnamed source".

How many syllables are in nameless?

nameless has 2 syllables: name-less. The stress falls on "name". In IPA it is /ˈneɪmləs/.

What is another word for nameless?

Close synonyms include unidentified, unknown, unnamed. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is nameless a common word?

nameless is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.