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anonymous
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective anonymous has 2 senses
- anonymous(a = adj.all) anon. - having no known name or identity or known source; "anonymous authors"; "anonymous donors"; "an anonymous gift" Derived form noun anonymity1
- anonymous(s = adj.all) Array - not known or lacking marked individuality; "brown anonymous houses"; "anonymous bureaucrats in the Civil Service" Derived form noun anonymity1
Antonym: onymous
CIDE DICTIONARY
anonymous, a. [Gr. without name; 'an priv. + , Eol. for name. See Name.].
Nameless; of unknown name; also, of unknown or unavowed authorship; as, an anonymous benefactor; an anonymous pamphlet or letter. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
anonymous, adj.
1 of unknown name.
2 of unknown or undeclared source or authorship.
3 without character; featureless, impersonal.
1 of unknown name.
2 of unknown or undeclared source or authorship.
3 without character; featureless, impersonal.
Derivative
anonymity n. anonymously adv.
Etymology
LL anonymus f. Gk anonumos nameless (as AN-(1), onoma name)
THESAURUS
anonymous
closet, cryptonymic, cryptonymous, incognito, inmost, innermost, innominate, interior, intimate, inward, isolated, nameless, personal, private, privy, retired, secluded, sequestered, unacknowledged, undefined, undesignated, unidentified, unknown, unnamed, unrecognized, unspecified, withdrawn, without a nameROGET THESAURUS
anonymous
Misnomer
N misnomer, lucus a non lucendo, Mrs, Malaprop, what d'ye call 'em, Hoosier, nickname, sobriquet, by-name, assumed name, assumed title, alias, nom de course, nom de theatre, nom de guerre, nom de plume, pseudonym, pseudonymy, misnamed, pseudonymous, soi-disant, self called, self styled, self christened, so-called, nameless, anonymous, without a having no name, innominate, unnamed, unacknowledged, in no sense.
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