anonymous

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: a=non=y=mous

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.

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sequestered, unacknowledged, undefined, undesignated, unidentified, unknown, unnamed, unrecognized, unspecified, withdrawn, without a name

ROGET 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.