adj.

1. Having an unknown or unacknowledged name: an anonymous author.
2. Having an unknown or withheld authorship or agency: an anonymous letter; an anonymous phone call.
3. Having no distinctive character or recognition factor: “a very great, almost anonymous center of people who just want peace” (Alan Paton).

[From Late Latin anōnymus, from Greek anōnumos, nameless : an-, without; see a–¹ + onuma, name (influenced by earlier nōnumnos, nameless).]

anonymously a·non'y·mous·ly adv.
anonymousness a·non'y·mous·ness n.

Nameless. See anonymous post and anonymous Web surfing.

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adjective

Having an unknown name or author: nameless, unnamed, unsigned. See knowledge/ignorance.

adj

Definition: unknown, usually by choice
Antonyms: identified, known, named

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IN BRIEF: Without a known name.

A work of art has an author and yet, when it is perfect, it has something which is anonymous about it. — Simone Weil

Dansk (Danish)
adj. - anonym, unavngiven

Nederlands (Dutch)
anoniem

Français (French)
adj. - anonyme

Deutsch (German)
adj. - anonym

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - ανώνυμος

Italiano (Italian)
anonimo

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - anônimo, desconhecido, pseudônimo

Русский (Russian)
анонимный

Español (Spanish)
adj. - anónimo, anónimamente

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - anonym

中文（简体） (Chinese (Simplified))
作者不详的, 佚名的, 无名的

中文（繁體） (Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 作者不詳的, 佚名的, 無名的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 작자 불명의, 특성이 없는

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 匿名の, 作者不明の, 名もない

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) غي مسمى, مجهول, مجهول المصدر‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮אלמוני, אנונימי‬

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