nameless adjective 5noun 1 adjective5 •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. •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. •Unable to be described or expressed. •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. — 1886 •(old-fashioned) 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. — 1953 noun1 •(euphemistic, no longer used) Vulva.Hérison, m. The female pudendum; ‘the nameless’. — 1896
