adj Having no name, or having a name that is unknown.
- 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.
- The village memorial honors the nameless travelers who passed through long ago.
- A nameless donor paid for the new library roof.
- 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.
— David Yaffe-Bellany, Millions for Crypto Start-Ups, No Real Names Necessary (2022)
- The soldiers were buried in a nameless grave.
adj Too strange or unpleasant to easily put into words.
- She felt a nameless unease as she walked through the empty house.
- There was something nameless in his stare that made me step back.
- A nameless dread settled over the crew.
